The speech by Luther King is as a result of a woman who was arrested for not giving her seat to a white person because she was black and that because the seat was on the reserved section for Negroes even though he was not clear on that. The Southern Manifesto (1956), is as a result of Southern legislators who were whites and school boards made laws that enabled schools to evade browns ruling on the disintegration of schools.
According to Luther King (2010), freedom is a way out of oppression from the white people. The Negroes want to be treated equally because they too are citizens of the United States, not the white people only. They too are governed by the law which should be upheld by and for everyone. The claim on the law that Negroes were to be treated differently from the whites, for instance, dividing a bus to have a section for blacks and whites, was never specified and it does not exist in the constitution. The southern legislators and opposed the Brown ruling that schools were to be racially integrated. They had an opinion that the notion of equal treatment of whites and blacks was wrong. They, therefore, enacted own policies to oppose the constitution. They are against equal treatment of whites and blacks. They view the constitution as wrong.
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The Negroes believe that the law is right and they will boycott against demonstration as they abide by the law as they seek for justice. They believe that if they are wrong about their fight, then the Supreme Court and the constitution are also wrong. The southern legislators and school boards view the constitution that allows Negroes to be treated equally as whites to be wrong. They go ahead and enact their own policies to oppose the constitution. Therefore, Luther King’s approach to freedom is for Negroes to be treated equally as the Whites while Southern Manifesto understanding of freedom is to separate and treat the Whites from Negroes.
References
King Jr, M. L. (2010). Stride toward freedom: The Montgomery story (Vol. 1). Beacon Press.
Manifesto, S. (1956). 102 Cong.
