"The March"

 The film, The March, relating back to what happened in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. brought an immense amount of change to America. Martin Luther King Jr., a famous civil rights activist who relayed a speech in front of thousands of people for equality and freedom. His famous speech is known as the “I have a dream” speech that allowed people to reflect on what was going on in America and helped bring freedoms to black people that they did not have before. 

In 1862, the Emancipation Proclamation was signed by Abe Lincoln to help black people gain freedom, however, that did not happen. For instance, many black people were unemployed, the black people who did work had very low wages, were not allowed to vote, and there was much segregation in their communities. Because it was Lincoln who put this document in order, MLK chose to present his speech in front of his memorial to bring attention that black people should already have freedoms as of 1862. 

As expected, many people did not agree with what MLK spoke about in his speech as well as all the things he did for this movement. Unfortunately, on April 4th, 1968, he was assassinated by a white supreimast named James Earl Ray who did not agree with what MLK stood for. This

broke my heart finding out about this because MLK truly did nothing but try to help the world become a better and more fair place. 

Something that stuck out to me was the fact that a mafia group wanted to get MLK killed so badly that the reward was $50,000. This is a large number and absolutely crazy that people would influence someone to kill another person with such a large number for the time period. 

For the most part, I feel as if racism and inequality has gotten much better because of people like MLK. However, there sadly are issues with it in our world today.