Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” is a powerful message to explain King’s journey through defeating racial injustice for equality. King’s letter can be broken down into the model of the toulmin approach. He uses strong claims to develop his reasons. He then strengthens it with providing concrete grounds. Then the warrant can be understood by the backing King offers. Continuing with the rebuttal the clergymen questions King with that King then refutes. Nonetheless King provides no qualifier because he has such a strong stance on defeating racial injustice. As “Letter from Birmingham Jail” is thoroughly analyzed the claim can be concluded to be that racism does not only affect one person but it also affects the entire race, …show more content…
The first claim King presents is broad but is narrowed to a specific location in where he is being detained. His grounds are the reasons why he was in Birmingham to begin with. King explains, “Several months ago the affiliate here in Birmingham asked us to be on call to engage in a nonviolent direct-action program if such were deemed necessary.” King continues to further explain the horrid acts of racial injustice that occurred that did deem it essential for direct-action. He expresses, “There have been more unsolved bombings of Negro homes and churches in Birmingham than any other city in the …show more content…
King backs this warrant by explaining the just and unjust laws that Negros are facing. Without justice racial equality will never be accomplished. King continues on by stating, “A just law is a manmade code that squares with the moral law or the low of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law.” King explains what an unjust law in further by expressing, “Any law that degrades human personality is unjust. All segregation statutes are unjust because segregation distorts the soul and damages the personality.” As a consequence without justice, the persons affected by unjust laws will never feel racial