Letter From Birmingham Jail, By Martin Luther King Jr.

Knowing how to discuss cultural era, you’ll first have to understand what took place during this time. You can research what you want, or you can have an idea or understand the changes and different events that took place that changed the world today. There is change every day. In history, different states and counties of the world have gone through their own independent order of movements in culture and the way that handled things. The changes that happen every day are often reactions against past cultural form. With new movements, the old movements fall into abandonment and sometimes die out completely, and that’s what the world is about, changing and improving. Even though change happens and some old movements die out, some things do reappear. If I may say, racism has reappeared or never actually died out completely. Today, most people don’t understand what it

In the year 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a letter from the Birmingham jail. King addressed Clergymen, who called their activities to be “unwise and untimely”. Birmingham, being the most segregated city in the United States needed to change and they need to change in a rapid pace. King makes it clear to the Clergymen that he is no outsider and that he was invited due to the connections he had. King had also mentioned that he feels sorry that the men’s public statement regarding him had nothing to do with the demonstrations. He felt that he needed to fight for equal rights and the only way to do that is by getting involved. “Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly” (Heffner 463). King wasn’t the kind of man that gave up easily, he knew that the world was twisted and he wanted to get it straight, and that exactly what he did. Everything he stood for was a prime example of the things he valued and everything he did affected the world today for the