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Did Martin Luther King Jr. accomplish everything he strived for? Did his dream come true? Martin Luther King didn’t always have good things going his way when he was doing the civil rights movement or even when he wasn’t. Martin strived for equality for everybody throughout the whole United States no matter your race. The way Martin achieved things without violence was pretty amazing. King led the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott and in 1957 became the first president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. With the SCLC he had an unsuccessful 1962 struggle against segregation in Albany, Georgia, and helped organize the nonviolent 1963 protests in Birmingham, Alabama. He helped organize the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his famous 'I Have a Dream' speech.
Martin fought for equality throughout the cities and states because he felt as if blacks weren’t treated right at all. This was during a time when segregation was going on. Blacks were discriminated against and they didn’t have any rights. They had to sit at the back of the bus, drink from designated water fountains, use back doors, and couldn’t shop at their stores, or eat at their restaurants. Martin felt as if that wasn’t right at all. Therefore, Martin started a movement. People say the Civil Rights Movement was just a protest, but King said “This isn’t a protest it’s a movement....a nonviolent movement”. This movement shows the different races' true colors that put the blacks through hard times. After watching all the footage after the movement it was harmful to watch. Still, everyone apart of the movement stayed humble to achieve what they wanted.
One hard thing King couldn’t really get his equality point across was segregation in schools. Black kids were still treated like the poor, and whites were treated like the rich. In my opinion, ion think this is right because no one has a value so why treat people like they do? However, this all started to change in some schools throughout the states, but it was still going on in some schools. Once the king told his “I Have A Dream Speech” everything started to come to hand everything he ever wanted.
Shortly before King passed away one of the things he strived for was the real bad brutality on blacks. At the time of segregation, this was one bad thing that nobody could do anything about because no one really had the authority. However, a 17-year-old kid by the name of Trayvon Martin was fatally shot in Sanford, Florida by a guy by the name of George Zimmerman. It’s tragic how Trayvon lost his life. Zimmerman was a part of the neighborhood watch at the time and he claimed that “he felt threatened because Trayvon was walking down the sidewalk with a hood on his head”. Now Zimmerman said because Trayvon had on a hood he felt threatened by him walking down the sidewalk at night. Sadly, Zimmerman shot Trayvon and he ended up bleeding to death. However, I find it quite weird that Zimmerman wasn’t sent to jail for any of this he’s still sitting free.
All of King's dreams didn’t come true when he was striving for them, he was sadly assassinated for trying to get equality.
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