They are alike insofar that they both deal with with people from minorities and and the discrimination against people who were not of European descent. In Mendez v. Westminster it was about Mexican American people while in the Magnuson Act it was about the Chinese American population and discrimination against them.
The correct answers are B) segregation laws of the South, C) high poverty rates among African Americans and D) discrimination.
<em>Dr. King is criticizing these issues in his speech: segregation laws of the South, high poverty rates among African Americans and discrimination.</em>
In his famous speech, Martin Luther King again defends African American civil rights and invites people to reflect on the issue of segregation and injustice. He refers to the segregation laws of the South that had affected and divided society in incidents such as the Montgomery Bus Boycott in the city of Montgomery, Alabama. He also referred to the increasing and high poverty rates that hurt black people and limited their possibilities to grow and prosper, and finally, the issue of discrimination and the effect on the United States society.