Wallace Vs Mlk

The issue of racism in the mid twentieth century played a huge role in Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Throughout the 1960’s he gradually became a civil rights activist, participating in multiple boycotts and riots against

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.”

He knew what African Americans needed and deserved, and that’s what he fought for. According to Document#4, King states that in order to have a “healing context” in the classroom, all races needed to be together. This means that separating black and white people wasn’t going to help, it was only going to harm and he didn’t want that. His ideas for African-Americans were the best because he’d set good goals to achieve complete equality and liberation for black people. In addition, he knew that responding with violence would’ve been counterproductive and a bad idea for African Americans.This shows that he really knew that in order to achieve equality, black and white people couldn’t be separated and he also knew that violence was not a

George Wallace’s Inauguration speech and Martin Luther King Jrs “I have a Dream” speech were given during the civil rights movement. Two men who stood on opposite sides of the issue; integration or segregation gave these speeches. Martin Luther King Jr. believed that America should be integrated, while Governor George Wallace believed America should be segregated. Martin Luther King Jr. gave the I Have A Dream speech in August 1963 in Washington, DC about the integration of America. In one of the greatest speech’s ever given, he tells the nation that there can be change. We could be the change that comes together from all nationalities and work together for a greater future. Martin Luther King Jr. tells that the constitution was meant to unite

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).

Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. Believed in achieving equality through peaceful demonstrations: “Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred” (King, pg.3 ¶.1). He felt that equality had to be gained through honorable, civil ways otherwise those fighting for equality were no better than the slave owners. We can see this best when he says, “We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protests to degenerate into physical violence” (King, pg.3 ¶.2). MLK felt that it was in the best interests of all parties for black to integrate into society. A couple of his quotes that show this best are, “I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood” (King, pg.4 ¶.6). and “I have a dream that one day 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” (King, pg.5 ¶.2).

According to last years paper for civics, "1963, Alabama governor George Wallace spoke out against letting black students attend the University of Alabama. He stood in the doorway to block two black students from being able to register. The conflict ended when President Kennedy ordered the Alabama National Guard to the scene." This totally makes children feel like they can't to do well at a good school, because they wouldn't get a chance. It explains that it's not right for segregation to go on for anything output side of school and that we had to do something about it. Parents had to make there kids go a mile to school, because the closest school was not their same color of the skin. Mostly the schools that were closer were only for white people and that's not fair for black children or people to go through to rough times of getting to school.

First and foremost, the most vital piece of any argument are the author’s claims. They set the standard for the rest of the text and are the foundation of most written works. Overall, Martin Luther King Jr. and George W. Bush both have multiple powerful claims throughout their speeches that convey their cause: King’s being to stop the segregation that existed during the 1960’s and before then and Bush’s being to destroy the invisible segregation in his time. This being said, King’s first claim in “the Letter from Birmingham Jail” is that the nonviolent campaign that he is leading is because of the injustice that is happening in the south, specifically in Birmingham. African American

On August 28th 1963, Civil Rights activist, Martin Luther King Jr. made his infamous “I Have a Dream” speech. In the speech, King confronts the mistreatment of the African American community and the lack of free will they contain in society. Throughout the mid-1900s, the Civil Rights Movement took place, influenced by centuries of cruelty towards the African Americans.. The most influential speech in the modern era was said in front of thousands of Civil Rights activists who all shared a common goal; to fight for the respect and to be treated as equals within the United States.

In Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail, he talks about the four basic steps of a nonviolent campaign, “the collection of facts..., negotiation, self-purification, and direct action.” Direct action is taken when the attempt to negotiate fails to reach the end goal. Through direct action, Dr. King hopes to create tension in the community that they are “forced to confront the issue.” There would not have been any need to create tension through direct action if the attempts to negotiate were not refused. He creates this tension by taking measures to show the community the evils of segregation through sit-ins, marches, bus boycotting, etc. The goal of these actions was to open the eyes of the community to realize the effect

addressed the biggest issue in the United States at the time; equality for minorities. Dr. King believed that a moral society would be one where all humans are seen to be equal, everyone would have the same privileges’ and racial groups would overcome their differences to unite all Americans and the principles that we share. Dr. King wanted Americans to take a non-violent approach to solving the problem. In the letter Dr. King discussed that for America to unite as one and minorities receive equality they must take the steps to do so, it would not just happen because they wanted it to. “We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly, I have yet to engage in a direct-action campaign that was "well timed" in the view of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation. 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."(434) I infer that equality for minorities and the respect of others go hand in hand in accomplishing the goal of uniting the nation as one. If we do not teach respect, respect will never be

Martin Luther King, Jr had been a strong leader in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950’s and 1960’s and fought hard to bring an end to the Negro’s struggle to fight oppression and gain equality. 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.” 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.”

His speeches were based upon his beliefs and the dreams of a better society. King had high hopes and spoke of his high hope for the black people. King didn’t make racial slurs against the white people, but he put the white and black people on the same level. He argued that every man, black or white should have equal rights.

During the late 1950’s and early 1960’s a black man by the name Martin Luther King Jr. help with the gradual advancement of Colored People to remove them from the second class of society, and to be treated as equals among their white peers. On August 28th 1963, a speech titled “I Have a Dream” written by Martin Luther King Jr was preached at the Lincoln Memorial, in commemoration of the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln had passed a hundred years earlier freeing the black slaves. During this speech King effectively got his point across to thousands of Americans, and lit a spark of hope to all African Americans, all with his moving words and rhetorical devices used in his speech.

The marvelous use of ethos in this speech really brought out the problems that the blacks were faced with. The documents, government, and granted rights, said one thing but were they really meant for all? Even after the Emancipation Proclamation, Constitution, and Declaration of Independence, “the Negro still is not free”(“ American Rhetoric: Martin Luther King I Have a Dream”). All of these documents and promises made by the government about “freedom for all” wasn’t completely true because the blacks were given the same promise. They still had to sit in the back of the bus, and use different bathrooms, and go to segregated schools. King confronted the government about these unfair “rules” they produced by “ coming to cash this check”(“ American Rhetoric: Martin Luther King I Have a Dream”), meaning they have come to receive the promises they were given. The check was to give them “the riches of freedom” and “the security of justice“(“ American Rhetoric: Martin Luther King I Have a Dream”). He backs up his ethics by describing the real life actions he faced during the racist times like, physical violence and abusive