THE DAILY NEWS OF THE DC. AREA
AUGUST 28, 1963
Washington Times Advise Column
Stand Against Segregation
On August 28, 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I have a dream” speech By: Sophie Marcotte Martin Luther King Jr., a small negro boy, was born in a large victorian house in Atlanta, Georgia. He beginning of this speech his started his journey as a civil rights activist during the plan was to change segregation Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955, and since then he completely and have freedom has had many accomplishments. Some of his for him and him and other accomplishments were having no more bus people facing the same social segregation in Montgomery, writing his own book to challenges as he was. As quoted help people take a stand against segregation, and from his speech “one hundred placing great power in the faith of having the rights years later, the Negro was not to vote. On the very special day of August, 28 Martin free.” which is what he was Luther King Jr. and other civil rights organizers lead planning to change. Will this be 250,000 people to the steps of the Lincoln Memorial the end of segregation as we to fight for equal rights and freedom. He believed know it? that Negros were still being treated unfairly and had no equal rights. With having different bathrooms, water fountains, schools and much more. He thought “why should we be treated different just by our skin color, when underneath we are all the same?” and that is what his speech was all about. At the
!
Dear Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., My name is Bobby, I am young white boy and I am having some debates with myself. A couple of weeks ago my mom, my grandmother, my brother and I were driving on a road trip, to bring my grandmother home back to florida. On the way we had some troubles like my brother and I fighting, and my mom being stressed about relationships. It was a long car ride. But an even bigger problem came up at one point, our car had gotten stuck at some creepy old house. Two black men came out of that house and came up to our car window. I was very frightened of chocolate men back then. We got out of the car and started running because we couldn't get our car unstuck. After that we decided to go on a train the rest of the way, but of coarse we ran into another problem. The train employees were on strike, so the only option was to take the bus. We were taking a white only bus, when a family of blacks who were desperate to come on to the bus to see their son who was miles away. After this encounter I realized that maybe we’re not so different after all. Now this is why I was coming to
PAGE 1