Letter From Birmingham Jail By Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Throughout history, humans have had their rights taken away from them due to their race, religion, and gender. The “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Dr. King best conveys the central idea that human beings who live in a violently oppressive society suffer Injustice. However, some may say that “Women” by Alice Walker has best conveyed the suffering of human injustice. Women have suffered injustice throughout history; although some of this is true, the Negro community have suffered the most injustice. The Negro community has suffered injustice by the white community due to the color of their skin. People fear what they don't understand, the whites took away their human rights because they believed that dark color

King has traveled to Birmingham to stop the injustice of the Negro community being violently oppressed. According to Letter from a Birmingham Jail by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,”Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider”(p4). In Birmingham, the white community has always treated the Negro community like outsiders. They were poorly treated and harassed to the point where even the police did nothing. Dr. King answered the “Macedonian call” of injustice that was going around. Dr. King uses a peaceful approach to counter attack the injustice and help the Negro community rise up. According to paragraph 10, “ we must see the need of having nonviolent gadflies to create the kind of tension in society that will help men to rise from the dark depths of prejudice and racism to the majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood”. In his wise words “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice

According to page 5, “They have languished in filthy roach-infested jails, suffering the abuse and brutality of angry policemen who see them as ‘dirty nigger lovers’”. There are some whites that see the injustice and try to help end it. However, instead of being heard by their fellow whites the get treated poorly and thrown in jail. Dr. King begins to explain what the the Negro community had to go through and how they rose up. According to page 6, “They will be old, oppressed, battered Negro women, symbolized in a seventy-two-year-old woman of Montgomery, Alabama, who rose up with a sense of dignity and with her people decided not to ride the segregated buses, and responded to one who inquired about her tiredness with ungrammatical profundity, ‘My feets is tired, but my soul is rested’”. Their churches were violated and they were forced to live in the ghettos. Although the clergymen claim that the black community was treated fairly, the blacks had no respect. They had a horrible educational system, some time they may not have had a teacher in the classroom. In Women by Alice Walker, she conveys how women were only expected to to be a housewife. They weren’t allowed to have and education or have a job, only cook and clean for the man of the house. According to line 12 to 18, “How they led Armies Headragged generals Across mined Fields Booby-trapped