Lincoln Memorial Reflection

It was the year of 1963, the days where life consisted of racial discrimination and civil right movements about the racial discrimination. I have decided to journal out my experiences starting today, viewing what I am experiencing, what I am seeing happening, and who's all getting involved. Day 1, it begins by all of us marching our way to Washington DC, it is August 27, 1963, to view an event organized by A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin, about jobs and freedom. I was riding along the bus coming from birmingham, there had to have been around 260 protesters willing to march, sing, and pray during the protest against the discrimination of blacks. During this time, blacks and whites were extremely segregated and blacks were not supposed to associate themselves with whites, be involved with white, attend the same schools, and they wanted to put a stop to that. During the trip there, there was a movement held in Kelly Ingram Park,
Police dogs were used and fire hoses all to just stop the movement. We were not trying to be violent, but the whites didn’t think we deserved to riot, therefore blacks stood up to that and fought for what they deserved. By the time we make it to Washington, there are about 200,000 people here now on August 28, 1963, about to listen to Martin Luther King Jr. present a speech. We are all surrounding the Lincoln Memorial now, waiting to hear what is going on, and what’s going to happen. He begins to speak now, and what is happening is going to be known for an historic event, he is pursuing a speech about having a dream for blacks to have equal rights as whites, it’s being known as an I have a dream speech. He is basically demanding for an end to racism. Blacks were beyond happy about this, we were always treated unfairly and segregation played a huge role in our lives where sometimes if we needed to use the restroom, we couldn’t because the only restrooms around were for whites