Speech
Todd Thompson
Business and Professional Speaking
06 21 06
A Speech To Tribute
Martin Luther King's contributions to our history place him in this unmatched position. In his short life, Martin Luther King was instrumental in helping us realize and rectify those unspeakable flaws, which were tarnishing the name of America. The events that took place in and around his life were earth shattering, for they represented an America that was hostile and quite different from America as we see it today.
Martin Luther King, Jr. catapulted to fame when he came to the assistance of Rosa Parks, the Montgomery, Alabama Black seamstress who refused to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus to a White passenger. In those days American Blacks were confined to positions of second-class citizenship by restrictive laws and customs. To break these laws would mean subjugation and humiliation by the police and the legal system. Beatings, imprisonment and sometimes death were waiting for......
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