hat has prevented certain minority groups, especially blacks, from reaching the American Dream. More recently, opposition to immigration has been rising (Daniels, 1991:400). As economic success has become harder for many to achieve, immigrants have been seen as reducing the already shrinking portion of the Dream available. Although American society generally has become more tolerant of racial differences, the population as a whole is permanently divided into three main groups in all official wording - black, white and Hispanic. Blacks and Hispanics continue to face a harder road to success and achieve the American Dream than most whites. In The Legacy, the 'Dream' as Martin Luther King Jnr saw it was that all people would be treated equally regardless of race, religion, or sex. He dreamed that his four children would not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character. He waited for the day they could walk down the street and hold hands with a child of a different race. This part of King's dream, in theory at least, has come true. Segregation by race has been outlawed. In reality, whites and blacks still lead separate lives. In cities and towns, affluent areas are mainly white, poor areas black or Hispanic. The two rarely mix. The system of local government in America perpetuates the disadvantages as taxes raised from local home owners determine the levels of funding for schools and community support centres. Poorly funded schools cannot provide the level of education of those in wealthy areas, thus affecting the educational and economic future of the students and consequently the ability to achieve the Dream. So whilst King today would see black and white children learning and playing together, discrimination still exists. Although it is now mainly economic, unfortunately it tends to follow a racial divide, lessening the access of the American Dream to minority groups. Jeffrey Klein states "..that although A...