Martin Luther King Informative Speech

Imagine sitting with a quarter of a million people in front of the Lincoln Memorial. Caucasian and African-American people sit next to each other joined in a common cause. Sweat drips down your head in the sweltering heat. Your legs ache from walking miles. Your hands are red from gripping to your sign like your life depended on it. You should be tired and miserable, yet you feel powerful and inspired as an important man gives a historic speech. “I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character…………..” You are participating in the historic March On Washington. The man is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., giving his famous speech, “I Have a Dream”. Dr. King was a famous man in the Civil Rights Movement. Did you know that violence and
Many African-Americans were attacked and killed for no reason other than the color of their skin. One example is the Emmett Till murder. According to the book Eyes on the Prize, Emmett Till was a 14-year-old African-American who traveled from his home in Chicago to Mississippi. He was kidnapped and viciously tortured before being shot in the head. The convicted men were found not guilty at court. Another example is from the book Leon’s Story, Leon Tillage was a young African-American man who had a white man sic a dog on him in a tavern parking lot. The people from the tavern came out and made bets on if he would jump from the top of his boss's car to the safety of a tree. Leon had other traumatizing events in his life such as his father being dragged to his death across the ground from a car and children throwing stones at him on his way home from school. These examples of assault are just some of the many attacks on African-Americans; combined they made a powerful cause for Civil Rights