In “Letter from Birmingham Jail” there were people being treated differently because of their skin color. This is like the present “We are the 99 percent” movement; the lower and middle class are treated different than the upper class.aise taxesr on the lower and middle class in order to lower the upper class’s income and business taxes. Prices were raised against black people to discourage them. Both past and present protested with signs and rallies to get what they wanted. This shows how “Letter from Birmingham Jail” and the “We are the 99 Percent” movement are connected.
The first way “Letter from Birmingham Jail” connects to the “We are the 99 Percent” movement is that people are being treated different than others because of something they can't help. In “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” African Americans can’t help that their skin color is black. White people decided that black people were not to be treated the same because they were different. In the “We are the 99 Percent” most people can't help what class they are in. Most of the 1 percent was born into that life. A handful of people worked really hard
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In “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” they had a lot of protests, they had sit-ins where they sat in places where only whites were allowed while people threw stuff at them. The African Americans walked for miles holding signs and even got arrested trying to change the way things were. All of their protests were nonviolent to insure they would get the best result. They also knew being violent would not help their cause, but it would most likely hurt it. The “We are the 99 Percent” movement had protests all over the U.S with people everywhere holding signs. eople got arrested for blocking traffic in places like New York City. In theThey tried the same strategy by making their protests non-violent. This show s the two situations are very