Over the years, generations experienced racism and went through many transgressions, but unfortunately it still occurs in society today. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses the character, Atticus, to address how the people of Maycomb should not discriminate people by their race and definitely should not bring it into the courtroom. He also tries to be a positive role model towards his children, Scout and Jem, so they can know how to treat people when they reach the reality of the world. In Dr. King’s speech, he also addresses how everyone should have equal rights and how African Americans should not have to suffer through the iniquities people enforce. Both of these speeches share similarities and differences but ultimately want the same goal: Equality for all.
Atticus Finch is one of the main characters from To Kill a Mockingbird. Throughout the story, he represents wisdom, knowledge, and equality, but white people look at him as a traitor. He became a lawyer during the 1930’s, but he did something that him and most
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. played a big role in the African American community along with many others because they wanted to make a change. He presented his famous “I Have a Dream” to thousands of people from different ethnicities. He went from preaching from small communities and churches to preaching at the Washington monument but he still had the same dream throughout his journey. It was on August 28, 1963 that Dr. King gave these famous words to the public that people still treasure today… “I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and