Summary Of Letter From Birmingham Jail By Phyllis Shlafly

In the “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King Jr., he writes a letter in which he is expressing his concerns about having morals and justice. On the other hand, the article “What’s Wrong with Equal Right for Women” by Phyllis Schlafly, her main focus was to campaign against the endorsement of the Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution. In both the letter and the article, Martin Luther King Jr and Phyllis Schlafly are both very strong activist with different opinions. In the letter that Martin Luther King Jr wrote from Birmingham City Jail was to write to a group of clergy members who did not approve of his actions in Birmingham City. Throughout the whole letter, he tries to make a statement which is that

In the beginning, she starts by saying how American women are privileged and have less duties than men. Phyllis Schlafly makes six strong points in her article. In the first three points Schlafly mainly talked about how American women live in a society that respects not only them but their family too, as well as them being so well off. In the last three points that she makes, she explains how it is better not to have equal rights. Phyllis Schlafly gives various examples of having equal rights. One of them would be how in a divorced case the mother always gets the custody of her children, if women really want equal rights then the custody could go either or. Another example would be the husband financially supporting his wife but if the equal rights amendment passes it could also be the other way around. As she mentions in her article “Do women really want to give up this special privilege and lower themselves to equal rights.” Schafly talks about how libbers view the role of a mother and a wife to be miserable because of all the thing they do. The libbers cannot speak out for the rest of the women out there, everybody has a different opinion. In other words, what Schafly is trying to say is do not go off of what the libbers think is right, all their doing is stating their opinion. The only injustice would be that Phyllis Schafly is a woman that is