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Martin Luther King's Fight For Equality In The US

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Since slavery, the black race has been fighting for equality. Famous activists like Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr, etc. have fought for the equality of the black race. White people have always been seen as the superiors because of the color of their skin, because of this African Americans felt like they deserved the same rights as whites since the excuse of a different skin color was irrelevant to equality. The Jim Crow laws ,which established separate but equal, caused African Americans to fight for more of their rights and really move towards equality in the 1960’s.

The Jim Crow Laws were what really sparked the big movement for equality in the United States. Separate but equal was really separate and unequal …show more content…

But in order to get these rights they had to go through a series of speeches, marches, and even fights. One of the speeches that had a major impact on the rights of african americans is Martin Luther King Jr.’s I Have a Dream speech. In this speech MLK makes it very obvious that he really wishes for his children to live in a world where they are equal to the white man he states,” I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” This shows the extent of racism and segregation in the United States since MLK clearly states that his children, who have done nothing wrong, are treated badly by opponents of civil rights. Another big act of retaliation would be the Woolworth’s Lunch Counter when african americans, along with white activists, sat at an all whites counter at a diner and when asked to move they stayed and sat while people through food and shouted at them to move. These acts spoke louder than words since they were just trying to show that they can't even sit to eat at a counter without getting yelled at or attacked. These movements later affected government decisions which granted more rights and equality to african

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