A movement for all

“Hispanic immigrants who took part in recent protest rallies around the nation repeatedly compared their demonstrations to those of the civil rights movement. Despite the small number of black participants at the rallies pushing for immigration reform, the protesters invoked the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks and linked the struggles of illegal immigrants in the U.S. today to those of black Americans in the 1950s and 1960s. Protesters in Mississippi - a battleground state during the civil rights era - even sang “We Shall Overcome” in Spanish.

Some African-Americans watched the widely televised events with a mixture of sympathy and support. Recalling their people’s past struggles for legal and social justice, they said they felt kinship with the protesters. Others viewed the immigrants’ embrace of the civil rights movement as an unwelcome appropriation and took to the airwaves to say so.”

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