Nearly 100 years after the 13th Amendment had freed the slaves; Black Americans still did not have equal rights. Black citizens were stopped from using the same facilities as whites in restaurants, hotels, theatres, and cinemas. Many states forbade marriage between black and white people. Separate, and always inferior, schools were set up for black children. Separate black and white residential areas in towns were created, and there was even segregation in the armed forces! Ways were even found to prevent most black people from having the right to vote. The Ku Klux Klan was an organization that still used violence against any black people who tried to stand up for themselves.
Police, judges, lawyers, and juries in the south were all black so any attackers on black people were not punished. Martin Luther King, a young Baptist minister became the leader of the movement to win civil Rights for black people. This essay will investigate what Martin Luther King did to improve the lives of Black people in the USA
