Remembering the Civil Rights

Next year, it will be 50 years since the famous speech of ''I Have a Dream'' was delivered by Martin Luther King on Washington DC. 13 years before this event occurred, the novel of the Invisible Man, was released, and takes place as a central piece the racism that took place prior to the rise of the Civil Rights Movement. Particularly at the beginning of the novel, we see various stunning similarities with what would take place just a decade later. The scene in which the narrator gets in a fight with a group of white guys in a stripper place apparently, strikes as a foreshadowing of what was coming.

At first obviously, the narrator is faced with a common fight that made up the life of the United States, back when racism was far more present in the face of the African American and the White ethnicities. After getting severely beated up to the point that he as blood coming out of his lip, Our narrator is faced up with one choice, and that is to defend himself through speech. Curiously by the end, he seems to have gained respect from the crowd that beated him up in the first place and is congartulated.

This same technique that the narrator of the Invisible Man did at first, is something that curiously is seen again, but well in real life, as a way that African Americans protested for the rights they deserved to have ever since the Civil War had ended a century prior. And this time it worked to be praised by the US at the time, and change history forever. How would know this novel was kind of a premonition of what was about to come?