God Bless You. While watching The Martin Luther the King Jr. speech documentary last year in the journalism 5 mass communication class that I attended and now attend I thought of the civil rights movement of the nineteen sixties and I instantly thought of my father and mother, being in their thirties years of ages involved in the NAACP and also they were involved in the NAACP in the nineteen seventies, when they were in their forties.
There were many people in and involved in the civil rights movement, but did people know what the speech meant?
The speech was said at a time of many years or oppression and segregation, hoping for integration and equality among blacks and whites. Before to those times the I Have A Dream speech and sometimes now of people and their prejudices who knew of when Plessy Fergusons separate vs. equal would immeasure. I often wondered and wonder if peoples prejudices were acts of jealousy?
The song, We Shall Overcome had significant meaning then :
∙ Freedom∙ Equality
and
∙ The barriers of overcoming prejudices etc
While I researched for the Martin Luther KingJr. I Have A Dream speech, I found a lot of information on the legacy. While visiting Dave Silverbrand who teaches journalism here at
What lead to the I Have A Dream speech does go back to the early days. In the Testament 1956 Supreme Court the method of nonviolence was based on the conviction that the universe was on the side of justice. Martin Luther King Jr. was raised a Baptist. States in Martin Luther King Jr., A Profile, when he was a boy he seen and experienced redicule and prejudice from people and the KKK( The Klu Klux Klan), but he was educated. In the Testament it states it was the deep faith in that the supreme court predicted the future that would cause the non-violent resister to accept suffering without retaliation. The truth is that God is on the side of truth, and justice comes down to people from the long tradition of their Christian faith, and another basic thing they had to (YMCA) The Young Mens Christian Association and the Young Womans Christian Association(YWCA) in which King spoke at UC Berkeley 1957.
In Martin Luther King Jr., A Profile , King attracted and released the energies of men and women of varying viewpoints. King mustve been seen as a leader who solved a technical problem that had worried Negro leaders for decades, because as a powerless group dominated by a powerful majority, Negroes couldnt stage an open revolt. The students solved the problem by clothing a national resistance movement in the disarmingly appealing garb of love, forgiveness and passive resistance.
States in the Testament of Social: Integration The Walk for Freedom 1956 march and the Speech Before Integrated Schools 1959 march to the Washington D.C. 1963 march, lead to The I Have A Dream speech. While seeing people of all ages, races, colors and religions and nationalities, creeds come together and march together toward the, I Have A Dream Speech documentaries and even President Kennedy who supported Martin Luther The King Jr. and the people was to form freedom and equality.
I remember we, as an African American family; my mother proclaimed Martin Luther The King Jr.s birthday to be a national holiday. In the nineteen seventies when me and my sisters and brother were in our early education(our older sister was married with kids then)wrote a note for us to give to our teachers to take us out of school on his birthday, so we had and excuse. We also watched documentaries about the civil rights leader in our early educations. My mother even told her boss she wasnt coming in to the office on his birthday. My mother said during those times of segregation the people in the north were different than the people in the south. We, as people have come along way, but still have issues in our society that need resolving. I always wondered why we were called , colored because everybody has a face and is a color.
Prayer and faith believing and healing and hope are our answers.
Mr.Richard A. Hill