Civil Rights Speech Analysis

The Speech

How are we going to protect our rights ? Discrimination is huge these days; it is calmer, but it was huge back then. In the past, African-Americans were only allowed to use specific water fountains and on the bus whites had to sit in the front and blacks in the back . The theme in the interview and the speech is that their needs to be a fight to make a change. In the past, white people were very powerful and had privileges that African-American people did not. This made African-American people try to change the way their ways of life by trying to end discrimination. The interview, the ¨Judges Courage,¨ by Ashley Glover and Helen Wright, and the speech, ¨More Perfect Union,¨ by Barack Obama, show how discrimination
existed in the 1960´s and still happens today.
In the interview, we learn that Helen’s husband, a judge, was involved in the Supreme Court decision that called for schools to be integrated. Despite death threats, Judge Kelly desegregated the schools, in a time where whites did not tolerate blacks. Helen Wright stated, “White women stood in front of schools with their hair curlers on

Santiago and screamed at and taunted the black children” (King, Casey and Linda Barrett Osborne 252).
If kelly was able to desegregate the schools the blacks would be able to go to the white schools so they would get a better education. Blacks never got the stuff whites did , they would get broken things and old things . New orleans, Brown v. Board of education called for all schools to be desegregated. Not everyone thought this was a good thing. Helen Wright also stated, “They almost shoved judge wright into the street to get hit by a car”(King, Casey and Linda Barrett Osborne 252). The schools did end up getting desegregated and skelly died several years after. “ you have to do the right thing no matter how hard it is (King, Casey and Linda Barrett Osborne 252). This qu0te was extremely important because Skelly Wright was the judge in New Orleans the famous Supreme court decision Brown v. Board of education. The perfect union is a speech that barack obama gave to the world. When he became president he wanted to talk about how he got to be a president when he was a black . He also brought up a women that was fighting through discrimination since little

and all the way to her death in 2009. Ann Nixon Cooper , who wanted to vote for
barack

obama because he was going to stop discrimination

.Something these two share is they both lasted so long and they both desegregated at some point. The theme is ´ change of power ´ people changing over the time with power. Now they both compare with the because They both changed with the meaning of power To wrap this up. The power is taking people over and it’s changing quickly this is why they call it the Change of power.

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Bringing everything together about the discrimination, there should be no more discrimination because its not fair to other people and it's ruining the world. Its taking the world apart because its making more people hate more and more.
The two sources we used both showed how discrimination still happens today , discrimination will probably never stop.

Works Cited

Barabak, Mark Z. "Barack Obama Wins Presidency, Making History." Los Angeles Times 11

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Nov. 2008. And Obama, Barack. "A More Perfect Union." Constitution Center,

Philadelphia, 18 Mar. 2009. Breaking Barriers. Expert 21, 2017. Web. 21 Mar. 2017.

King, Casey and Linda Barrett Osborne. "Oh, Freedom!" Oh, Freedom! Kids Talk About the
Civil Rights Movement With the People Who Made It Happen. New York: Random House, 1997. Breaking Barriers. Expert 21, 2017. Web. 21 Mar. 2017.