Dr King Letter From Birmingham Jail

Letter from Birmingham Jail Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister and social activist, who led the civil right movement in the United Stated throughout the mid 50’s until his assassination. Dr. King was arrested for participating in some sort of demonstration against racism and unjustified segregation. King’s “Letter from Birmingham city jail” purpose is to basically promote responsible and efficient leadership without racism and injustice. Throughout his letter, Dr. King wanted to illustrate the bias way of how the African American community was treated especially in the South. The letter was considered one of the most important document in the history especially the fact that it expresses Dr. King personal perspective about

King gives evidence by saying “I have heard numerous southern religious leaders admonish their worships to comply with a desegregation decision because it is the law” (809). King earlier in his letter mentions that Jesus ask to love your enemies. Obviously many churches were not loving their enemies but were hating their African American Christians brothers. Kings continues on by giving many evidences of how ministers were unjust toward their “Negro” brothers because some believed that the social issues that their “Negro” brothers were going through had nothing to do with the gospel. King is being very realistic because it is sadly and unfortunate to see that the white clergyman didn’t feel the pain that their brothers were experiencing. According to King, he has seen and was confused at the same time because some churches were wraithlike religion that “Makes a strange, un-biblical distinction between body and soul, between the sacred and the secular” (809). The reason why king says that is because the bible teaches otherwise comparing to what those minister were teaching the white Christians

Kings gives an example of Meshach, Shadrach, and Abednego who refused to obey the law of Nebuchadnezzar even if the higher moral law was at stake. However, the three Christians were willing to be “Face hungry lions and the excruciating pain of chopping blocks than submit to certain unjust laws of the Roman Empire” (805). King illustrates this biblical example to gain sympathy so that the white clergyman could understand that the situation they are is kind of the same as theirs. He is asking them to be like Meshach, Shadrach, and Abednego who wanted to do the right thing even if the law was above them. Since he clergyman man are Christians they should not discriminate their color brother, but love them as Jesus loved his