Equality In America Research Paper

Over the past decades, America has made several big steps to become a nation known for serving each individual with equal rights regardless of their race or gender. It wouldn’t have been possible without so many struggles, bravery, and heroes that put their time, effort and even lives at risk. On top of that there were several important events that had taken place in order to establish the freedom of slavery, to cast away segregation and to enforce laws of equality among all men regardless of race. Black Americans had been struggling and fighting for their right to be equal to everyone else for a very long period of time; silent protests took place and much evidence of white violence and crime towards blacks became known causing many to wonder whether America really was home of the free. That’s when slight action took place to at least try to “aid blacks by passing the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the Ku Klux Klan Act, the Civil Rights Act of 1875, and as well as the Fourteenth Amendment and Fifteenth Amendment (The Civil Rights Era." Sparknotes.com. N.p., 2016. Web. 2016). Unfortunately there were many racist whites who were there to interfere and put
The gathering consisted of 200,000 blacks also including whites whom decided to take action as well. This all took place on August 28, 1963 in front of the Washington Memorial located in Washington D.C.. This is where Martin Luther King Jr’s speech “I Have a Dream” took place. This speech was made to speak against those whom believed black men should never and would never be granted the rights every other American had; it pointed out what America promised the nation would be which was “land of the free and home of the brave”. Martin’s dream was to one day see white men and black men to become brothers and be able to see each other as an equal