Essay On 1960s Conflicts

The Conflicts of the 1960’s Have you ever thought of living in a world where schools, restaurants, and even movie theaters would refuse to give service to someone just because of the color of their skin? Or put white and African American people in different sections just because their skin was a different color? That’s the way African American people had to live in the 1960’s all around America. In the 1960’s many conflicts arose like the Birmingham Protests, Letter from a Birmingham Jail, the March on Washington and Martin Luther King’s assassination. All of these conflicts in America’s history all relate to how people are being racist and how these conflicts in the past have changed our world today. America has become a world where people are being racist towards many ethnicities. On January 15, 1929, a very important man known as Martin Luther King Jr. was born. When King was a young boy, he knew he wanted to be something great, but wasn’t sure what he wanted to do. When he was a teenager, he realized that he wanted to become a pastor at his church. Later on in King’s life he became a huge influence on people during the time of these protests and boycotts as well as being the pastor he wanted to be. In 1961,

On April 4, 1968, King was killed while he was doing business in Birmingham. King was talking to a group of sanitation workers who had gone on strike. Later that evening, King was standing on the balcony of his motel room, when his murderer James Earl Ray, shot King in the back of the neck. One of the men who went on the trip with King found him lying on the floor of his balcony. His partner called the ambulance and King was rushed to the hospital. He died an hour later. King’s death had a huge impact on everyone during this time of many protests. King’s death angered many of the strikers and eventually helped end segregation in honor of Martin Luther King