Civil Rights Movement Research Paper

In the civil rights movement hundreds were injured and sent to prison.Also forty one were killed in the movement from "Civil Rights Martyrs." Southern Poverty Law Center. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 Jan. 2017. So many people harmed from a nonviolence program.The civil rights movement was lead by Dr.Martin Luther King jr. Dr King was one of the forty one who died in the civil rights movement.The reason why he passed away because he was assassinated.In his time he lead the march on washington,and told one of the greatest speechies of all time.It was the I Have a Dream speech.The I Have a Dream speech persuaded,got the ettention,and touch the hearts of the people around the country colored or white.The reason why it was so loved was because Dr.King use

Dictionary.com, n.d. Web. 19 Jan. 2017. anaphora means a repetition of words in successives versice,clause,or sentences. “But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land,” as stated in the text he repeats one hundred years later. Dr. King says this to show that hundred years later since the colored were sent free that they are still being treated differently,and to remind them of the rights. Also as pointed out in paragraph eleven,“Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.”He repeated go back to because to show that everywhere in the country should have everyone be the same no matter what color of their skin.In the text we see that Dr.King says,“ Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”As we can see he repeats free at last to show the people this is the time for change and motivate them to support the civil rights movement. These are some of the

King is attempting to explain the millions colored people have been cruelly taken away from their rights after getting hope that they are finally go to be like everybody