The Tyranny of the Majority and Martin Luther King's Answer

Abstract

In this paper I intend to explore and analyze certain major events in the history of the African Americans presented in their struggle to define and clarify an identity of their own and their contribution to the liberation form social injustices. While there exist various rights and laws passed as necessary determinatives of personal identity and freedom for specific minority groups and their traditions in all cultures, the written and unwritten laws surrounding African Americans’ became a primary tool in the discourse of their oppression, enabling the western white culture to order and discriminate this orphan-like society. As the attacks against colored people and their tension have reached a crescendo throughout the years and their discrimination and exploitation was still a prevalent daily issue even in the middle of the twentieth century, in this paper I propose to focus on the correspondingly increased efforts of this community made to rise from the pitch of their oppressed social political status aspiring to equality of opportunity and liberty.