Dr. King and Diversity  

 

 

 

Text Box: Okay… imagine this. You are at school playing outside at recess. You walk over to the drinking fountain and you get something to drink. You are white and when you turn around you see the new African American girl from your class standing in line behind you. You think that she looks nice and you wait for her. Then the two of you walk over to the playground and you hang out for the rest of recess. You become best friends. Back when Martin Luther King Junior was alive and segregation was big, what you would have just done would have been thought of as unacceptable. White children and black children went to different schools, used different bathrooms and different drinking fountains. Martin Luther King Junior was one of the people that helped make our country diverse like it is today.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                       

Text Box: ~What did he said and wrote to promote diversity? One of the most well known speeches that MLK Jr. gave was his “I Have a Dream” speech. An excerpt that promotes diversity from the speech is “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”                                                                                                  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Text Box: ~What other actions did he take? Martin Luther King Junior did a lot of other things to help make our country diverse today. He fought through what the white people put him through during his fight for freedom and a diverse America.
Text Box: In the 1960s one of the reasons there was so much racial tension was that people were afraid of diversity. If the majority had given black people a chance, their stereotypes could have been proven wrong. Some of the common stereotypes that were thought of to be true to blacks include the belief that black people weren’t as intelligent, weren’t as capable, and some people even believed they were somehow “unclean” compared to the rest of the human race. Although MLK Jr. only focused on racial diversity, there are many different kinds of diversity. There is political diversity, and social, and economic diversity.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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