King referenced that “america has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as its citizens of color are concerned.” what is he referring to?

The King had a note from America that promised him that they would pay all of the taxes and not rebel. America decided to not pay the taxes and went into a full-on rebellion.

King was referencing the ideals of the founding documents which made certain promises regarding the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and the guarantees of the Constitution in the 13th, 1th and 15th Amendments. King felt the United States had failed to honor its promises to Africans Americans and the March of Washington was designed to obtain those promises.

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answer: i looked it up

explanation: in 1955 in montgomery, alabama, a girl refused to give up her seat on a public bus. the girl was black, and the passenger looking to take her seat was white. this is a familiar tale, but it's not about rosa parks. the girl in the story is a 15-year-old high school student named claudette colvin, and this act of defiance occurred nine months before rosa parks did the same thing. colvin was arrested, and her case is what led to the u.s. supreme court's order for the desegregation of alabama's bus system. so, why don't we know colvin's name? "later i had a child born out of wedlock; i became pregnant when i was 16," colvin says. "and i didn't fit the image either, of, you know, someone they would want to show off.