Josephine Baker Speech At The March On Washington Analysis

During the segregation in America, African Americans where not able to have the same rights as white people. However, once the African Americans had enough from not being treated as normal humans they started to protest, causing a conflict between white people and African Americans. Having true freedom, means able to pursuit happiness in life without being told what to do in life just because of your skin color.
Having freedom, doesn’t mean people have to go away just to find success in life in another country. In the "Speech at the March on Washington" written by Josephine Baker, talks how she and her family where targeted because of their skin color, end up loosing their home making them have to flea away from America and move to France,
Martin Luther King Jr. talks about how African Americans should be treated the same way as the white people. Martin Luther King Jr. choose to protest about the effort he believed, in that African Americans where not being treated the same way as the white people where being treaded in America. He ends up getting arrested for the protest that he planed out, where he later writes a letter about the point he is trying to bring to the world, he wrote, "Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifted from our fear drenched communities, and in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty"(pg10). During the time, when Martin Luther King Jr. wrote the letter all of the African Americans where not being treated fairly and did not have the same rights as white people had. King ended up fighting for the rights for all of the African Americans, even if it meant to put himself in danger or getting arrested. He ends up seeing the bright future for African Americans in America, eve do it doesn’t look like when he wrote the