Dr Martin Luther King

A Man’s Dream, a Reality It’s hard to imagine how one man can change a nation with a simple idea of equality. Dating back to the 1960’s, people were treated differently depending on their race, gender, ethnicity, and sexual background. Whites males were the superior to everyone else and blacks, or African Americans, were looked down upon. While African Americans were treated better in the 1960’s than they were in the 1860’s when they were slaves in the United States, they still were treated unequally in our society. It wasn’t until the 1950’s that a movement started that changed the United States, rewrote history, and help shape the world that we know today. The Civil Rights Movement occurred in the 1950’s and it was a period of time where our society was changing. Contrary to what many people believe today, it wasn’t just a movement for African Americans to be treated equal, it was a movement mainly for everyone to be treated equal, men and women of different races, people with disabilities, and sexual orientation. The movement was aimed at protesting through nonviolent ways and forms of resistance. While the movement had many iconic figures during the time, many historians connect the most important person of this time period with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and what he did. Dr. King fought for equality for African Americans, victims of injustice, and the lower class citizens. His protest methods were in comparison to Gandhi by being nonviolent and peaceful. While Dr. King had many important parts during the movement, many people remember his speech he gave in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. in 1963 and it is referred to his “I Have a Dream” speech. Dr. King gave the speech in front of thousands of people of diverse ethnic backgrounds. One of the most impressive parts of this speech is that while most of the speech was wrote out, towards the end of the speech, Dr. King went off script and spoke his mind and it becomes the most important