It is crucial to establish an understanding of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States in order to radiate acceptance and knowledge of how difficult it was to be different. This was such a powerful and influential time in history that marked numerous future events. There were multiple significant activist leaders that managed to improve the whole world and bring segregation to an end. Martin Luther King Jr., one of the most commemorated of the civil rights leaders, published an essay called "The World House" explaining a metaphor of the world where it can be seen as one big household. This helped better understand the importance of desegregation and unity and helped clarify events like the enrollment of James Meredith at the University of Mississippi. Since "The World House" paved the way for desegregation and allowed people to recognize the gravity and severity of how black people were being treated people in government became aware and were able to offer justice for people like James Meredith.  

Martin Luther King wrote about the necessity of brotherhood and how society needs to start seeing the world as one big household that needs acceptance and teamwork to function properly. This essay brought awareness to the world  and helped it recognize how desperately things had to change. "The World House" brought light and hope for people and even effected people in government. This was a blessing especially for black people in need of justice, people like James Meredith. "James Meredith was a civil rights activist who became the first African American to attend the University of Mississippi in 1962" (Biography). Having already accomplished being a part of the US Air Force and attending an all-black college, Meredith decided to take it to the next level. In 1961, he applied to the all-white University of Mississippi and was immediately accepted thanks to his outstanding resume. Once the registrar discovered his race they withdrew his admission. All public educational institutions had been ordered to desegregate due to Brown v. Board which is why Meredith filed a suit alleging discrimination (Biography). It was absolutely immoral and unlawful to deny Meredith his acceptance to the university. Undoubtedly the state court ruled against him, however the case made it all the way to the Supreme Court and they finally gave Meredith justice. The university was deeply afflicted and set out to disturb Meredith's registration in 1962. Riots erupted and government involvement had to be put into action to maintain the peace (Biography). By October, James Meredith had finally succeeded in becoming an official student at the University of Mississippi.  

This major event in history proves how necessary it was for the world to change and just how unlawful the world dealt with difference. Meredith's bravery should have been celebrated and yet it was frowned upon up until later once society made a self adjustment. "The World House" talks about how critical it was to start moving forward, embracing each other, and start working together just like the members of a household would. This metaphor is brilliant, it empowers people to look at one another like brother and sister and establish the fact that sometimes the members of a home disagree but need each other to maintain the balance. Without coexistence the world or "house" cannot function.  

King establishes in this piece a crucial point that racism is a "threat to human welfare and survival as a whole" (Baldwin). King says that racial issues need to be seriously addressed before the world can move towards properly building new paths (Baldwin). King says that "all life is interrelated" and that "whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly"  meaning that everything and anything affects everyone and anyone. He says that "we must learn to live as brothers or we will perish as fools," (Carolina Reader). If we carry on as individuals and not as a unified society, mankind cannot prosper. He says that action needs to be taken now before it is too late. One of the most powerful lines in this essay was "we can never again live apart, we must learn somehow to live with each other in peace" (Carolina Reader). He says this to demonstrate how necessary it is to unify especially since no one is going anywhere so they might as well accept each other and create harmony.  

Many things determined the causes for the Civil Rights Movement but this essay strongly clarifies and explains the reasons behind this movement and why the civil rights activists made the decisions that they made. Even though Martin Luther King had to make a public address just to bring this mess to an end he was eventually successful.  It is crucial to understand this movement in order to appreciate what King has accomplished and realize how ground breaking and courageous James Meredith was and how daring his advances were and somehow manage to make history.
