Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs. In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested and sent to jail because he and others were protesting the treatment of blacks in Birmingham, Alabama.
While sitting in jail he received a letter from 8 white clergymen stating that his methods were unwise and untimely. So Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. took it upon his self to reply to the fellow men explaining his vision and beliefs to achieve his goals in Birmingham. In the letter he had a lot of strategies to make his argument with the 8 men first, he explains about all the brutality records and numerous of unsolved bombing of Negros house bombing and churches because laws as of just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. He had leadership for seeing a better vision for a better realistic approach to racism problems. He came across the non-violent direct action such as marches, boycotts, picketing sit in’s and a few other peace protests for justice.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - …”the purpose of our direct-action program is to create a situation so crisis-packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation. Too long has our beloved Southerland been bogged down in tragic effort to live in monologue, rather than dialogue?” In other words his purpose was to spread his