Two Americas

For the comic books by this name, see Two Americas (comics).

Two Americas is a phrase used by Martin Luther King Jr. in his 1967 speech "The Other America" to describe the differences in what life is like for Black/African-Americans and Whites due to the lack of equal protection under the law and the racial class system designed to keep people with African and Native ancestry from equality and freedom. John Edwards later revisited the Two Americas theme frequently in his 2004 run for vice president and his 2008 presidential campaign.

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