Momentus anniversary in the history of the united states. It was 50 years ago that reverend Martin Luther king delivered his i have a dream speech. John f. Kennedy had come into office. Helping to spur him and the nation to further action, civil rights leaders organized a march to intergrate equality in the south. Theyre called the freedom fighters. Reporter for too long in america segregation in the south was synonymous. But in the 1960s a new generation armed with a new Supreme Court decision prohibiting discrimination challenged the status quo in the south. This land is composed of two different cultures. A white culture and a colored culture and ive lived close to them all my life. But im told that we mistreated them and that we must change and these changes are coming faster than i expected. Reporter in the 50s, change wasnt just coming it had arrived. Blacks were risking their homes, their jobs even their lives for freedom and equality for a taste of americas democracy. I was hit
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