Segregation can be defined as the legal or social practice of separating a group of people based on their race. After the Second World War, a racial caste system designed to keep the black population in a position of inferiority was perfected by the Southern states. The black population was segregated and discriminated against by white Americans. The lives of the black population were often worse than they were before being freed. African-Americans were sent …showed first 75 words of 1426 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1426 total…such as sit-ins, boycotts, and marches. Dr. King talks of the struggle the black society would have to go through in order to obtain their birthrights and how it wouldn't be an easy road. Dr. King's dream was a nation, a great nation that was free from discrimination and segregation. This great nation would offer equality, freedom, peace, brotherhood, and justice for all of its citizens no matter what the color of somebody's skin is.