I_Have_A_Dream

I Have A Dream “I have a dream…” During the 1950’s, African Americans and many others faced discrimination in jobs, housing, and education. They began to have to struggle to earn rights that they should have been awarded already. This became known as the Civil rights movement. In one city, to help to gain their right, the African Americans and others produced an organization. They called it Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA). They chose Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as their leader. Dr. Martin was a very smart and religious person. He graduated from Morehouse College and later earned a PH.D from Boston University. Being very educated, Dr. Martin admired Mohandas Ghandi. He too believed that violence wasn’t the answer. So instead, he used civil disobedience, or non-violent protests against unjust laws. “We must use the weapon of love. We must have compassion, and understanding for those how hate us.”(Dr. King.) Dr. King also achieved many things. He achieved the Civil Rights Act. When he did this the congress ended Racial and Religious Discrimination by having President Johnson sign the act. (Doc. 5) Another achievement received by Dr. King was raising the percentage of African American voters. In 1960, percentages all across the south of America were king, dr, rights, african, discrimination, color, civil, act, things, should, people, martin, ended, americans, achieved, within, very, struggle, speech, segregation, right, religious, percentage, others, opposed, one, must, man, lot, known, just, example, every, doc, believed