Within the obscured twilight of April 16th, 1963, Martin Luther King began to compose the Letter from a Birmingham Jail in which he procured that all human beings are “caught in an inescapable network of mutuality” and injustice committed within any miniscule community upon Earth “is a threat to justice everywhere” as all people are “tied in a single garment of destiny”; hence, any infringement that “effects one directly” will affect “all indirectly.” Following the Northern Union victory against the Southern Confederacy in the American Civil within the United States. Nevertheless, indignant after defeat, the Southern states began to enact Jim Crow laws that were rulings that carried the intent to enforce racial segregation in aspects such as …show more content…
The extended metaphors King uses within his quote regard the populace as composed of an interconnected web of relationships such that each individual is tied to another via an invisible thread of acquaintanceship; thus, the commitment of injustice towards one soul would further impact miscellaneous communities of people as the tolerance of such inequity sets a precedent - weakening the overall structure of justice. To begin with, on December 1st, 1955, Rosa Parks - an African American seamstress residing in Montgomery - refused to give up her seat to a white man on a segregated bus as was obligatory by the city directorate. Accordingly, with the procession of the bus ride, the vehicle began to fill up, requiring more white passengers to stand up, urging the driver - James F. Blake - to demand Parks and three other black passengers give up their seats. Without further compliance, Rosa Parks was arrested under the statement of systematic civil disobedience. Such measures displeased the African American Montgomery community that sought an opportunity to challenge the local discriminatory