Letter From Birmingham Jail

Martin Luther King Jr., “Letter from Birmingham Jail”. The pressure of racial segregation was reaching a boiling point in 1963 in Birmingham, Alabama. After being arrested for his part in the Birmingham Campaign, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote an open letter in response to “A Call for Unity”, written by eight white clergymen from […]

Letter from Birmingham Jail. The main argument of Dr. King adapts to a notion that the experiences of the Negroes are relatively unnecessary for a country which projects itself as the cradle of peace and justice. He presented the relative injustices to the “colored” people which the social structure of the nation has been thoroughly […]