The March

The south was an awful place for African Americans even after their emancipation from slavery. This treatment and segregation of African Americans reached the tipping point in the 1960’s. Leaders like Martin Luther king Jr. Lead the march for the equal and just treatment of African Americans. Dr. King wasn’t the only leader fighting for the fair treatment of their people, many young people took up arms so to speak and helped lead the fight for their rights. Even white leaders were on the forefront of fighting for African American rights.

The way African Americans sought out justice was through peaceful mass, and minor demonstrations and marches. These demonstrations and marches paved the way for changes to happen, these changes didn’t happen after one or even 10 demonstrations and or marches but instead it happened after the constant marches and demonstrations that kept going on throughout the 1950’s and 1960’s.

The exception was the march on Washington because that one demonstration and March drastically effected the movement for the fair treatment of African Americans. So many iconic things happened at this march, so many famous speakers and singers, and leaders spoke and were heard. Dr. Kings “I have a dream” speech was given at that march.  This event was the crucial turning point in the movement. And in my opinion the straw that broke the camels back and caused the necessary changes that were being sought after for so long.

A year after the march on Washington the civil rights act of 1964 was passed and African Americans got what they had been fighting for, for so long, Fair treatment under the law.