Martin Luther King: Segregation In The United States

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In 1984, the United states supreme court made the decision that segregation in a public schools must stop, blacks and whites where to go to school together. Many white people where angered at the supreme courts decition. By fall of 1955, nothing had changed in montgumry. Blacks still went to separate schools than whites. Most black people where afraid to demand their rights, and if they did they would most likely lose their jobs. So to make a living and stay alive they didnt say anything. However, MArtin luther king was that exeption, he realized that if nothing is done african americans lives would never change, and that his race would cuntiue to accept the system of segregation and start to lose more and more hope each day. on the late evning

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