Martin Luther King Jr Use Segregation In Letter From Birmingham Jail

Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.) was a native to Atlanta Georgia, was a minister in the Baptist church and was one of the lead men and women in the civil rights movement in the United States, from the mid-1950s to the late 1960s. He is popular for the “I Have A Dream” speech, the “Letter from the Birmingham Jail” and the Montgomery Bus Boycott. In “Letter from the Birmingham Jail,” King is appealing to his fellow clergymen to call injustice for what it is, to stop facilitating segregation and tend to their brothers’ needs and to stop playing hypocrite about the matter at hand: racial prejudice and segregation. The letter brings into view man’s fickleness and his need to be protected to avoid vulnerability.

King pens this letter sitting in an Alabama jail in 1963, in response to the remarks his fellow clergymen have made about his recent activities being “unwise and untimely” (254). King begins by stating why he is in Alabama. He likens his purpose for being in Alabama to that of “the prophets of the 8th century B.C” (King 255), carrying their “thus saith the Lord far beyond the boundaries of their home towns” (King 255). King then sheds light on the hypocrisy found among the clergymen and

He says they are able to “deplore the demonstrations” (King 255) by Negroes in Birmingham, Alabama, but do not express concern for the unjust “conditions that brought about the demonstrations” (King 255). King