Martin Luther King's I Have A Dream Speech

One of the great American Speeches:
Martin Luther King Jr delivered his famous "I have a dream speech" at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963, before a crowd of about 250,000 people. D.r. King's "I have a dream" speech was a revolutionary speech, which sparked or lead to the end of discrimination against blacks, women and other minorities. The reason why the "dream" speech was one of Americas greatest speeches was because this sparked or opened the gate for minorities to use their right and peacefully protest and would later lead to great changes like giving blacks the ability to go to non-segregated schools, the ability to vote, and it greatly improved racial justice in America. There was a wide discrepancy between the funding for white and black schools. The constant attempt to take even that little money from black schools to fund white schools and the obvious racism of

African Americans in the South faced lots of obstacles which stopped or impeded on their right to vote. Despite the Fifteenth and Nineteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, which had given black men and black women the right to vote, southern voter registration boards used some obstructions like literacy test and poll taxes to stop, limit or deny African Americans their legal right to vote.
Southern blacks were also intimidated, harassed, and physically violated when they tried to register or vote. This is to show how little the power African Americans had, politically, locally or nationally. Infact only five percent of blacks in Mississippi were able to vote in 1960. King shed or addressed this, saying, "We will not be satisfied as long as a negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote" (page 4 of 6). Kings "dream" speech gave blacks something to fight for, something to live for and something to vote