Should Black And White People Have Equal Rights And Opportunities?

1963 was the year that had Dr. Martin Luther King in jail after peacefully protesting at Birmingham, Alabama. Birmingham was known as one of the most racist and a vicious city in the south as integration was resisted by many whites. When Dr. King was incarcerated, he believed it would motivated others to join his movement to protest, but many didn’t because they could lose everything, their jobs, cars, houses, etc. Dr. King decided to call for back up, Rev. James Bevel to help with his movement and get more people protest. Bevel came up with the idea of involving children to march in Birmingham to protest since there is a less effect towards them than adults. Children at that time knew that their parents weren’t capable to protest and they

At a time where African Americans felt oppressed by whites, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood up for what he felt was right and spoke the truth about controversial issues such as inequality and injustice. During the 1960s when he wrote his “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, segregation was a major controversy. There was a divide between African Americans and white Americans with racism and prejudice being very prevalent throughout this era. Public places, like restaurants and bathrooms, were being split up into sections based on race. As a nonviolent protester, King frequented in silent marches through southern cities, especially Birmingham, Alabama. The goal was to act in a nonviolent way towards whites and stay persistent. From this,

The Children’s March on Birmingham was not only important in the civil rights movement, but also in changing the perception of the importance of children in protest. The children were able to find their voices to speak out against injustice. This finding of their voice was a major theme of a quote by educator Bell Hooks, “Coming to voice... identify freely with other people.” This quotation is a representation of what the children involved in the march were able to do. Once the adults did not want to be involved in the movement, the children found the courage to connect with each other and conquer segregation in Birmingham. The Children’s March not only set the stage of the involvement of children in other conflicts, such as the protest against

Black children weren't allowed to go to school with white children, or have white friends, or even be able to play on the same playgrounds. Many places were segregated and the blacks wanted that to change. They didn't want to live their whole lives being segregated and they especially didn't want that for their future children or loved ones that would come into the world. So, SCLC and Martin Luther King Jr settled to have a march but they knew it was too risky to have the adults march. If the parents marched and got put in jail, they could lose their jobs and not be able to take care of their children. King also had an assumption that if the children marched people would feel sympathy for them. They did feel sympathy for them, mostly everyone but the brutal

Martin Luther king Jr, and his followers stood for non-violent protests, despite being victims of threats. Although King was highly recognized, and praised amongst the black community not all African American’s agreed with his ideology of obtaining their civil rights through peaceful non-violence protest. Therefore other movements were created such as the Black Power Movement which was a group that emphasized that blacks should claim their civil rights through violence. Overall Martin Luther King Jr had an major impact on the civil rights movement, and will always be remembered for his famous impactful “I have a dream speech” which was his vision of black & white people coinciding with one another, and ultimately living in peace together where blacks do not have to worry about being judged by their skin color, but instead their actions. “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.”

Martin Luther King Junior got put in jail for peaceful protesting to get everyone equal rights. While King was in jail he wrote a letter to the church explaining why everyone should be treated equally, no matter their skin color. King uses metaphors and rhetorical questions to influence and inspire his readers, to stop segregation; it is unfair to treat people differently just because of their skin color.

At the march on Washington, he 1963 he delivered his “I Have A Dream” Speech. In this speech he says “I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.”(http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm)the. The people that helped him overcome this obstacle were the members of the Civil Rights Act. They overcame this obstacle by protesting, even though they got in trouble, and they were tortured. They were still hated by many but they still fought for

The Children’s March of Birmingham 1963 The Children’s March tells the story of how the young people of Birmingham braved arrest, fire hoses, and police dogs in 1963 and brought segregation to its knees. During the time period 1963, Birmingham, Alabama was the main part for the Civil Rights Movement. In the Civil Rights Movement the people may thought maybe bringing out there children to join them in the movement may stop the police from doing what they planned on doing and what they were already doing to many of the African Americans that were around the movement. Almost more than 4,000 African American school kid organized to desert classrooms at exactly 11 in the morning.

Remembering The Children’s Crusade, or known as one of the most stupefying events in history, could take anyone back in the days of segregation and great detriment to our own people. On May 2, 1963, a group of student protesters, in which were motivated by Martin Luther King Jr., partook in the 1963 campaign to desegregate Birmingham, Alabama. More than a thousand students skipped their classes and marched to downtown Birmingham using tactics of nonviolent direct action. The first day, hundreds were arrested and taken to jail in school buses and paddy wagons. On the second day, the children were surged with high-pressure fire hoses, attacked by police dogs, clubbed, and dragged to jail. The punishing of the African American race was harsh; when those punishments were mixed with how they protested for civil rights, it only got worse. Not all the time does one stop and realize that some whites felt the need to help out in some ways. Whether they could relate or they just truly had sympathy, these whites helped protest. When someone protests, they are expressing their objection to something. Whether it was more a silent protest or an aggressive protest, punishments to both races were given. During the Civil Rights Movement, white and black protesters were given some rare and extreme punishments for simply standing up for what they believed in.

When he was arrested and jailed in Birmingham, Alabama he then fell under criticism by white clergy for coming to Birmingham as an “outsider” to cause trouble and increase tension through public sit-ins and marches. I feel that Martin Luther King was able to both set aside that criticism by establishing his credibility to have not only been invited to come to Birmingham to help end the injustice to the Negro people via peaceful means, but he was able to identify moral, legal and ethical cause to promote his quest to put a stop to what he identified as “the most thoroughly segregated city in the United States” (King, 2017, p, 3). I will provide a summary that will show what Martin Luther King believed were the cause of the injustice that he was striving to end to as well as his concern over the white community’s ability to make the Negro “wait for more than three hundred and forty years for our constitutional and God-given rights.”

Dr. King's effort to make non-violent campaign and to end racial segregation led Negroes to protest together for equal rights. Appeal of emotions in letter the King use have shown anger and sadness from broken promise and injustice law. The King clearly stated that disease of segregation will never end after all suffer, “For years now I have heard the word “Wait!” It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This “Wait” has almost always meant “Never.” We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that “justice too long delayed is justice denied.”(King 275).

In 1963, Martin Luther King became the most known civil right leader of his time. During this time Martin Luther King gave a speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington. Many whites in the south at this time did not see any racial harmony that King spoke of that would happen (Black History Timeline). Not long after some white supremacist bombed a Baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama killing four young African American girls. The church bombing was the third one Birmingham had in eleven days. This happened a few days after the government started to integrate schools. This was a dangerous time and area to integrate because Birmingham, Alabama had one of the most dangerous and strongest leading KKK (Black History Timeline).

One kids told their parent, that they wanted to march and stop segregation before their parents die and so they can be free. There were boys and girls of all ages, who were marching in the Birmingham march and fought hard to put an end to segregation for them and their parents.

The aims of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s was to end racial discrimination and segregation. Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the leaders of this movement and an advocate for non-violent protests and peaceful resistance. Starting with the Montgomery Bus Boycott, MLK lead a series of non-violent protests, inspired by Thoreau’s essay. Blacks marched, boycotted, and protested for their rights and were arrested in the process. In 1963, the March on Birmingham occurred, to encourage integration and desegregation in Birmingham. Children as young as six years old marched and were arrested. It captured the attention of the nation and employed real social and legal change, as the city was required to integrate and hire African Americans downtown. MLK was a part of the Birmingham Campaign and was arrested and imprisoned, writing his famed “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”. In this letter, MLK expresses his reasons for the protest and his desire for equality. MLK stated “in no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law … I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law” (King). In this passage, he states his willingness to accept his punishment for breaking the law, a small price to pay for the possible change he could make in

It was anonymously said, “Racism is something you learn, not something you are born with.” I believe that everyone should be treated equally. It should not matter if a person is white or black they should be treated for whom they are. I believe that there is no superior race; every race should be entitled to the same set of human rights. I want to live in a world where there is no white privilege. White people are least likely to be abused by an authoritative figure than a person of color. I believe that everyone should have the same opportunity. Whites are more likely to be hired than other races. I believe your race should not determine who you will become. If a black person wants to become a lawyer they have the capability to become one.