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Analysis Of Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter From Birmingham Jail

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A civil rights protest and clergyman, Martin Luther King Jr., in his letter from Birmingham Jail (1963) addresses the topic of civil rights and defends his actions in Birmingham by writing about how African American can no longer wait for equality and if no one else will help them put an end to the unjust laws then they will do it themselves in the quote “I am here because injustice is here.” He supports his claim by starting off saying he was invited to Birmingham, saying that sometimes tension is needed to get results, the difference between a just and unjust law, disappointment in the white moderate, and how the Church is not doing its part to help its members. King uses a combination of rhetorical questions, “They say, I say”, and biblical
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