Overcoming Obstacles In Selma By Martin Luther King

“Obstacles are barriers and to overcome them is to do whatever it takes to prevent them from stopping you from going where you want to go”. An obstacle is anything that keeps you from achieving your goal; it could be physical, financial or resource limitations. It could be moral opposition or anything that impedes you from comfortably achieving one's goal. Martin

Luther King Jr overcame his obstacle in the Movie Selma. He gave Africans Americans the full right to vote.

In the movie Selma we look back at the 1965 campaign by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

(David Oyelowo, as played on the movie) to have equal voting rights for African-Americans.

That political battle was waged in the deep south, where King organized marches from the town of Selma

Martin Luther King Jr, He had many obstacles, him and the African American community. One because of their diversity, they are neglect the rights of an American citizen.

During “Bloody Sunday” many marchers wore beat and battered. Why, some may ask, because of the color of their skin. In a nutshell it was racism that impede them for a while. Dr. Martin

Luther King Jr. helped the cause of the civil rights movement in America in his short time. He was the leader of a group that sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Eventually, the state desegregated public transportation because of their boycotts. Throughout his life, he led peaceful protests, sit-ins, marches, and delivered speeches. To help overcome his and the African

American obstacle.

I can apply their story to my life, experiences in school and my community because living in an area where the most families are of European descent. Being of African descent, there’s always slight racism going around. Like Martin Luther King Jr I do not let the negativity affect me adversely. I use it as fuel to push harder and go further and be the best hard working

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2 me I can be. My goal is to let everyone know that just because I’m from a minority race,