Martin Luther King Violation Of Civil Rights Speech

When America was divided by color, white being treated as the supreme and colored being treated as the inferior, a Baptist minister from Atlanta, Georgia named Michael Luther king jr., arose fighting for the civil rights and freedom for all Americans from racial discrimination (Martin Luther King biography 2014). He later changed his first name from Michael to Martin during his lifetime. King’s dream was to make America a colorblind nation (Cross, 438). Even after years passed for the United States’ independence, America was still divided due to racial and gender-based discrimination. Social and political freedoms of civilians were not justified. Voter discriminations, racial segregations, having the mindset of the colored being socially and politically unfit, were types of prejudice that Black Americans were facing during the 1900’s. Why were the civil rights violated? Were the Black Americans not perceived as …show more content…
2004). The purpose of this march was to receive national attention to the continuing racial discrimination against blacks and to give equality in terms of worker wages regardless of color (Cross, 440). All of this was going to be done by putting pressure on Congress to pass a civil rights bill through a speech at the Lincoln memorial which was going to become history. This speech was addressed from King and was named as “I Have a Dream” (King, Martin Luther, Jr. 2016). King’s American dream was not only to attain justice for blacks; it was also for all humanity. King in his “I have a Dream” speech addresses:
King’s speech affected the observers and even white liberal leaders, who declared King as the leading speaker for “African American cause” (Martin Luther King, Jr. 2004). This speech started to change the prejudice mindsets people possessed against African