Similarities Between I Have A Dream And A Raisin In The Sun

I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr. and A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. There are three similarities between these two works. Both works discuss segregation, protest not becoming violent, and keeping the dream of equality alive. In Raisin in the Sun, Linder says, “It is a matter of the people of Clybourne Park believing, rightly or wrongly, as I say that for the happiness of all concerned that our Negro families are happier when they live in their own communities.” King says, “One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.” They both discuss that whites will not let blacks integrate with them. King says, “I say to you today, my friends, that in spite