Francis, Engelica: Diversity

Diversity has changed completely in the past century for the United States. A hundred years ago, diversity was about the segregation of "Blacks" from "Whites." In A Call For Unity and Letter From A Birmingham Jail express the views of the White and Black races (respectively) during the civil rights movement. In all honesty, the Black civil rights leaders, such as Martin Luther King Jr and Rosa Parks, were standing up for what's right while the Whites were hypocritical Christians and bent the laws to favor them over the Black race.
  
A Call For Unity was written by eight clergymen to rally their fellow White racist followers to push Blacks back down beneath them and persecute them for wanting equal rights. However, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his famous Letter From Birmingham Jail to speak out against the unjust acts from the Whites. He wrote about how he was arrested for protesting without a permit. There wasn't a law against protesting peacefully without a permit, but once again Whites wanted to silence Blacks and keep things as they were. Martin Luther King Jr. pointed out all the sinful things the whites were doing to the blacks: lynching people because of their skin color and not because of any wrong-doings; setting fire to a black man's house because they hate his skin color; drowning black people for no reason except racism; policemen sending their dogs to attack Blacks just for the fun of it. The Whites accused the Blacks of unlawful protesting when in reality the Whites were doing unlawful acts just to hinder Blacks and keep them from receiving their rights and becoming equal to whites, because people do not like change if it does not benefit themselves.
  
I am so glad that the United States has become desegregated and Whites and Blacks have equal rights. About half my friends are Black, and I'm an advocate for world peace. I like seeing people get along together, and I dislike people who are racist. As a White person, I'm thankful for Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Malcolm X (the peaceful side) for making our country desegregated and equal.