Who Ended Segregation

The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom took place in Washington , D.C. , on August 28, 1963 . Attended by 250,000 people, (mostly blacks) it was the largest demonstration ever seen in the nation’s capital. This idea was opposed by many including President Kennedy because he feared that it might make the legislature vote against civil rights laws in reaction to a perceived threat. Once it became clear that the march would go on, however, he supported it. I Have a Dream speech remains one of the most famous speeches in American history. Dr King started with prepared remarks, saying he was there to "cash a check" for "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness," while warning fellow protesters not to "allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., delivered this speech on August 28, 1963 , on the steps of the Washington , D.C. , Lincoln Memorial during the march on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Dr. King has said “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.” I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi , a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. 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. I have a dream today.

There was a white section and a black section of the bus. Rosa Parks, a hardworking woman, decided that she was too tired to give up her seat. She would have given it up to a child or an elderly person but she didn’t want to live, worked, and comfort the whites so she didn’t get up when she was told to. She was later arrested and fined for violating a city ordinance, but her lonely act of defiance began a movement that ended legal segregation in America , and made her an inspiration to freedom-loving people everywhere.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. received many awards including some Nobel peace prizes such as The Nobel Peace Prize, at age 35, the youngest man, second American, and the third black man to be so honored, 1964, Selected as one of the ten most outstanding personalities of the year by Time Magazine, 1957 and much more.

Dr. King was shot while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis , Tennessee on April 4, 1968 . Dr. King was in Memphis to help lead sanitation workers in a protest against low wages and intolerable working conditions. James Earl Ray was arrested in London , England on June 8, 1968 , and returned to Memphis , Tennessee on July 19, 1969 to stand trial for the assassination of Dr. King. On March 9, 1969 , before coming to trial, he entered a guilty plea and was sentenced to ninety-nine years in the Tennessee State Penitentiary.

In conclusion, Dr. King made a huge impact on segregation and the way of life between whites and blacks. Dr. King did exactly what his philosophy had said and has worked for the better.