Why We Can't Wait by Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was a man of many contributions for his fellow black American people. In which one day he wanted for all to have equal rights, which everyone is entitled to through birth. He was an American civil rights leader who searched for equality through nonviolent acts of demonstrations. Equality in the aspects of social, political, and economical structures. Martin Luther King Jr. was an extraordinary person who wanted for blacks to have civil rights, and he also wanted to place a stop on discrimination. He wanted to accomplish these all-using non-violent methods. Everyone admired Martin Luther King Jr. because of his strength and power, which enabled him to demonstrate love for everyone no matter what color he or she was. In his lifetime, with the gained respect and admiration of the people encouraging him to go for the best and extreme measures was to be taken. Extreme measures such as to get civil rights, end discrimination and he wanted to obtain all that with nonviolence. Each of these measures are just a few examples of what Martin Luther King Jr. was able to accomplish for his fellow black Americans. Martin Luther King's most powerful asset to accomp
With just an innovative idea as nonviolence it began to spread amongst the nation. And due to the spreading "those whites without a vested interest in segregation have found acceptable exactly the changes that the nonviolent demonstrations present as their central demands" (12). So in other words the concept of nonviolence played an important role in having whites change their minds on excluding the blacks. Their nonviolent methods made the whites feel a little more secure in mixing amongst the blacks during that period of time. The civil rights of the blacks were non-existing in the period of time of Martin Luther King Jr. That's because their right to go to school was denied. They weren't given the privileged in going to school with the white folks. Since they believed they were too good to be mixed with them. Sharing things must be separate. Just like if you were hungry or thirsty you couldn't go their businesses because the blacks had it hard at this time all because people were really closed-minded. Even without knowing that an opportunity to learn about new ideas and experiencing new things was knocking at their door. All the wonderful things people missed out on because of ignorance and fear. Another way in making desegregation of school go slower were through an injunction method. "The injunction method had now become the leading instrument of the south to block the direct action of civil right drives to prevent Negro citizens and their white allies from engaging in peaceable assemblies, a right guaranteed by the First Amendment"(70). So now the blacks weren't able to join together peaceful because if not it would be used against them anyways. The blacks had to take care of their business carefully so they wouldn't get in trouble. Another aspect that ties in with discrimination is segregation. Segregation is the separating of one racial group from another or from the rest of the society because they were different. The blacks were segregated from schools, restaurants, bathrooms, buses, libraries, water fountains, etc. The segregation of schooling is very difficult because blacks were going around with no education and skills. And since they had neither education nor skills how would they go and get a job. People actually went to the extreme of separating both bathroom and water fountain. Both white's and blacks had their own spots. In order to demonstrate the injustice of segregation they began to boycott in lunch-counters and restaurants. At the lunch-counters they had a sit- in demonstration to represent those of color. Unlike the boycott with the bus, the one person who made an impact is named Rosa Parks. Since at that time only whites were allowed to sit
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