“I have a dream” rings a bell? This speech was given by Martin Luther King. It was delivered at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C. on August 28, 1963. It was part of the Civil Rights Movement. The Civil RIghts Movements was to try to overturn segregation. This lasted for about 4 years (1960-1964).
Although the Declaration of Independence states that all men are created equal and the Constitution was amended to extend the rights and protections of citizenship to African Americans. Just because they changed the laws, it doesn’t mean people change how they behave. Most of the discrimination that the African Americans faced was in the South, although of course it also happened in the Northern, Western and Eastern states it wasn’t as much.
Although the Declaration of Independence states that all men are created equal and the Constitution was amended to extend the rights and protections of citizenship to African Americans. Just because they changed the laws, it doesn’t mean people change how they behave. Most of the discrimination that the African Americans faced was in the South, although of course it also happened in the Northern, Western and Eastern states it wasn’t as much.