Civil Rights Speech Analysis
The Speech
How are we going to protect our rights ? Discrimination is huge these days; it is calmer, but it was huge back then. In the past, African-Americans were only allowed to use specific water fountains and on the bus whites had to sit in the front and blacks in the back . The theme in the interview and the speech is that their needs to be a fight to make a change. In the past, white people were very powerful and had privileges that African-American people did not. This made African-American people try to change the way their ways of life by trying to end discrimination. The interview, the ¨Judges Courage,¨ by Ashley Glover and Helen Wright, and the speech, ¨More Perfect Union,¨ by Barack Obama, show how discrimination …show more content…
If kelly was able to desegregate the schools the blacks would be able to go to the white schools so they would get a better education. Blacks never got the stuff whites did , they would get broken things and old things . New orleans, Brown v. Board of education called for all schools to be desegregated. Not everyone thought this was a good thing. Helen Wright also stated, “They almost shoved judge wright into the street to get hit by a car”(King, Casey and Linda Barrett Osborne 252). The schools did end up getting desegregated and skelly died several years after. “ you have to do the right thing no matter how hard it is (King, Casey and Linda Barrett Osborne 252). This qu0te was extremely important because Skelly Wright was the judge in New Orleans the famous Supreme court decision Brown v. Board of education. The perfect union is a speech that barack obama gave to the world. When he became president he wanted to talk about how he got to be a president when he was a black . He also brought up a women that was fighting through discrimination since little
and all the way to her death in 2009. Ann Nixon Cooper , who wanted to vote for
How are we going to protect our rights ? Discrimination is huge these days; it is calmer, but it was huge back then. In the past, African-Americans were only allowed to use specific water fountains and on the bus whites had to sit in the front and blacks in the back . The theme in the interview and the speech is that their needs to be a fight to make a change. In the past, white people were very powerful and had privileges that African-American people did not. This made African-American people try to change the way their ways of life by trying to end discrimination. The interview, the ¨Judges Courage,¨ by Ashley Glover and Helen Wright, and the speech, ¨More Perfect Union,¨ by Barack Obama, show how discrimination …show more content…
If kelly was able to desegregate the schools the blacks would be able to go to the white schools so they would get a better education. Blacks never got the stuff whites did , they would get broken things and old things . New orleans, Brown v. Board of education called for all schools to be desegregated. Not everyone thought this was a good thing. Helen Wright also stated, “They almost shoved judge wright into the street to get hit by a car”(King, Casey and Linda Barrett Osborne 252). The schools did end up getting desegregated and skelly died several years after. “ you have to do the right thing no matter how hard it is (King, Casey and Linda Barrett Osborne 252). This qu0te was extremely important because Skelly Wright was the judge in New Orleans the famous Supreme court decision Brown v. Board of education. The perfect union is a speech that barack obama gave to the world. When he became president he wanted to talk about how he got to be a president when he was a black . He also brought up a women that was fighting through discrimination since little
and all the way to her death in 2009. Ann Nixon Cooper , who wanted to vote for