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What Was The Impact Of I Have A Dream Speech

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The man of the famous speech, “I have a Dream,” Martin Luther King Jr., got African Americans the freedom they have today. Without him, they probably would be under the same law as they were back then. He, as a black citizen, was trying to help the blacks and whites. He wanted the violence to stop. In the 1950s, Martin was working hard to make his dream come true. He was trying to bring people together and wanted the white people to stop killing African Americans for just talking to them. They could go to jail for just being too close to an white person back in the 1800s and 1900s. During 1959, there was a black that was trying to change the world from the white people having all the freedom. He wanted it to be all the same, no matter what color someone is. He had a dream for everyone to all be equal and stop fighting one another and come together and make peace. By 1963, his speech was famous. He worked hard for about five years to change the world with Americans. He wanted the violence to change to non-violence.” Martin Luther King believed that people’s lives began to end the day they become silent about things that matter.”Anything blacks did back then would get them in trouble for a long time. From them just being black, they could get lied to …show more content…

By then he was proud of himself because he wanted the world to know how he felt and his thoughts on these topics. At the age of 33 Martin Luther King was powerful that after that his speech thing starts to change.He changed it so that the African Americans could drink cold water and eat the things African Americans wanted to. They wanted to go to the restroom they wanted to without a problem or without someone wanting to kill them or putting them in jail. After he made the speech he had people wanting to murder him because the freedom promise he made for African americans the freedom we

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