Protests Against Racism

By Holly, Rebecca, Faith

Sept. 18, 1998
Martin Luther King was the leader of the Civil Rights Movement. In 1963, he marched into Washington and spoke his "I Have A Dream" speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial. That day, a quarter of a million people came to the memorial. His speech told of his dream about black and white children playing together and of black and white men treating each other as equals.

Martin Luther King was the leader of the Civil Rights Movement. In 1963, he marched into Washington and spoke his "I Have A Dream" speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial. That day, a quarter of a million people came to the memorial. His speech told of Lincoln signing the Emancipation Procalmation, and how, even 100 years after, Negros were still not free. He said that they can not "sastisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred." The freedom rides were a way for a group of blacks to ride by bus and train around the Upper South to tell other Negros to sit where they want to. After Martin Luther King died, the amendment that made blacks equal to all white men and women.