Letter From Birmingham Jail During The Civil Rights Movement

American Civil Rights took a turn for convalesce during a 13 year reformation. The most notable advocate during this time was Doctor Martin Luther King Junior. From the late months of 1955 until the beginning of 1968, America experienced a touching movement that allowed African Americans to achieve more indisputable improvement towards racial equality than the combined previous four centuries. Although, African Americans had been victims of a life of inferior displacement, which almost always included violence, Dr. King advocated nonviolent, racial equality, which spread throughout America during his rein of equality encouragement. Dr. King’s movement was the most moving during this time thanks to his ability to deliver passionate speeches,

King stated, “Birmingham is probably the most thoroughly segregated city in the United States. Its ugly record of brutality is widely known. There have been more unsolved bombings of Negro homes and churches in Birmingham than in any other city in the nation” (King). Birmingham was directly targeted by Civil Rights advocates due to the cruel methods of the local police. Dr. King was one of the many Civil Rights advocates who directly targeted Birmingham through his active participation in protests on location. During this time in 1963, a letter was published and released to the public that was written by King as he was sitting in jail after he was arrested and placed in solitary confinement in the Birmingham jail for violating a state circuit court injunction against protest. One notable reference to Dr. King is a commonly cited ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’, which undoubtedly expresses and relays his determinative, persuasive talent to target and promote his nonviolent view to not only the American public, but the entire world by adopting and exhausting philosophies from great philosophers, American law, and the Bible. In this letter, one will find that King expresses his unsettlement in regards to the clergymen and their view on the unfit actions of the African Americans time in

King. This march at the capitol was where King took the opportunity to present his infamous ‘I Have a Dream’ speech in front of a crowd of more than 250,000 people. The entirety of the speech is meaningful and useful to civil rights during the movement and today. King relayed to the audience, “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; we hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character” (King). Not only did this well-delivered speech present King with the label ‘Man of the Year’ thanks to the widespread Time magazine, but instigated motivation for the nation to finally act on civil rights. With his afresh paved title and position as a social change leader in mind, the year 1964 conveyed innovative light to America when Congress passed the revolutionary Civil Rights Act, virtually disposing the previous legal racial segregation. Dr. King became the youngest person to win and accept the Noble Peace Prize, at the ripe age of 35 in 1965, which also marked the year Congress passed the Voting Rights Act that eliminated the voting barriers African Americans had been victim