A Letter from Andrea's Basement

I have to say that I'm excited to discuss Martin Luther King Jr.'s A Letter from Burmingham Jail. I've read it before in another class. It was History of Minorities in America. Good class, good letter. Personally, I was more interested in Malcom X. The Civil Rights Movement happened because of people like Martin Luther and Malcom X. After the Civil War, slavery was finally abolished by adding it to the Bill of Rights. For the life of me, and cant remember which one it was, its either the 13th, 14th, or 15th. I knew at one point in time however. So a new generation of children started to grown up in a world without slavery. So they didnt really know of how interations were between the white man and the black man. So children, who don't usually understand social behavior, are confused as to why they are seperated from the other people. In Anne Moody's Book, Coming of Age in Mississippi, she mentions when she was young, and had white neighbor friends she would play with. She purposly played doctor with them just so she could figure out that was different about them, but they had all the same parts she did.
It just amazes me how history is what it is. All these people who were part of the Movement knew it was big, but i bet you they didn't think that our world would have changed so much. I know it took along time from when slavery was abolished to complete freedom for every race. Even today, some people still live in oppression. All kinds of people. Not everyone has a free life, and i think thats the next step. The problems i see happening is that some people are 'bad' and some things should be controled and not permitted.
I don't know if what i just said is exactly how I feel about the subject, but I know that history is more real than is thought. Its hard to read about something that happened in the past, because it's not happening to you, and you probably didn't know the people involved. History is not only good to learn because of changes that happen, but so that we don't repeat the mistakes of the past, and can use it to help our future.

wow, i went way off subject from Martim Luther, but oh well.