MARTIN LUTHER KING "I have a dream"

In 1865 slavery was abolished and the "negroes" became free workers. However , racial discrimination spread in American society, because white Americans did not accept them as equal. A sistem of racial segregation started. Black people had to go to different schools, bars and cinemas from the white people. They had different entrances to public places and differents waiting roooms at the stations or bus terminals. They had different park benches, train or restaurant seating and even public toilets. They had difficulty in finding job and had to live in black neighbhoods.

In the 1950s thr African-Americans challenged segregation and the black Reverend Martin Luther King jr. became the leader the African-American Civil Right Movement. He was born in Atlanta , Georgia, on January 15, 1929. He became a Baptist minister and a civil rights activist early in his career. In 1955 he led Montgomery Bus Boycott, following Rosa Park's act of civil disobedience: she was arrested because she refused  to give up her seat on a bus to a white man. On August 28, 1963 he led the March on Washington, where he delivered  his famous speech "I have a dream". In 1964 he received the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to and  racial segregation and racial discrimination through civil disobedience and other non-violent means. He also campaigned to end poverty and to stop the war against Vietnam. On April 4, 1968. as he was leaving his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, he was shot and killed.

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