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In defense of Rosa Parks and the speech “I have a dream ...”
The first case in which Luther King was directly involved in the struggle for black civil rights was that of Rosa Parks. Rosa Parks was a black woman from Montgomery who was arrested on December 1, 1955, for refusing to get up and give her seat to a white man. The city's segregationist law was also applied to public transport. On the day in question, there were no seats available in the white wing. The driver then forced Parks to get up from the black wing so that his place was taken by a white man.
Parks' arrest sparked a huge uprising, not just in Alabama, but in much of the southern US. King stood out for publicly defending Parks and for organizing demonstrations that denounced the arbitrariness of the bus company and justice. Still in the 1950s, King gained national notoriety as an activist, but it was in the beginning of the following decade that his name became known worldwide. On August 28, 1963, Luther King addressed an audience of 250,000 people in Washington, the US capital. It was in this speech that he expressed the desire to see his country without racial segregation, as shown in the excerpt below: I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live the true meaning of its belief: “We consider these truths as self-evident that all men are created equal. ” I have a dream that one day, in the red mountains of Georgia, the children of the descendants of slaves and the children of the descendants of slave owners will be able to sit together at the fraternity table.
A year later, King received the Nobel Peace Prize as a way of recognizing his role in the fight for black civil rights and the pacifist method employed.