Martin Luther King Historical Context

Historical Context
On November 5, 1955, a black woman was sentenced to prison for didn’t offer her seat to white people on the bus. So Rosa Parks, an activist of civil rights, refused to comply with the apartheid on the bus of Montgomery. Later, the black people launched the boycott against the bus and voted Martin Luther King as their leader. One year later, Martin Luther King became well known for his leadership. On November 1956, the Supreme Judicial Court announced that racial segregation in Alabama run counter to the Constitution, the rule on the bus was abolish soon.
To explore the final victory of Montgomery Movement, Martin Luther King established Southern Christian Leadership Conference with other black leaders. In 1960, the black

The audience of this speech was the group of people gathered in Washington administrative region; the number was nearly 250 thousand. These people have commons that they are protestors against discrimination and the compatriots of Martin Luther King. They are long for equality, freedom, and happiness.
At the beginning of the speech, Martin Luther King used vivid language to point out the reason and the purpose of this speech. He started from the Emancipation Proclamation 100 years ago on Lincoln’s time, spontaneously transition into the current situation where the black people lived. He used the accent when it comes to "One hundred years later," which is getting heavier and heavier to express the aggravation of his anger.
By using lots of parallel metaphor and construction in his speech, he promulgates the the promise made by the government in that time and unequal treatment of black people, which formed the contrast between ideal and reality. Therefore, King indicated that it is time for the government to fulfill the