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| MLK's "I Have a Dream Speech" being given 1963 |
Being the well-known civil rights advocate that he was, Martin Luther King Jr. voiced his stance on the matter clearly in his "I Have a Dream" speech. He believed that white and black communities could be combined together, and peace could fall over the nation. When talking about the Emancipation Proclamation and Lincoln, he stresses the fact that even over a hundred years later after freeing the slaves, African Americans still face lingering oppression and racism within the United States. King then compares the Constitution to a check, which was meant for both black and white races, but nonetheless, the check was marked for "insufficient funds" for blacks. He did not believe that the "bank of justice is bankrupt" and continued to fight against the injustices, stating his dreams where "all men are created equal" and children would not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
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Rosa Parks was another civil rights advocate
who was arrested for refusing to sit in the back of
the bus. This led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott
of 1955-1956.
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