trustworthy bond with the audience‚ support his claim through reason‚ and create emotion in the audience that compels them to leap out of their seats and take action. Martin Luther King Jr. attempted to do this when he wrote an open letter while in his jail cell after a peaceful debate against segregation. His lettered response was guided at a statement by eight white Alabama clergymen saying that segregation should be fought in court and not on the streets. King uses a combination of three rhetorical
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10 September In April of 1963‚ Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested in Birmingham‚ Alabama. He was charged with parading without a permit. Before being arrested‚ he was there supporting and leading the African-American civil rights movement. King was a man of religion‚ education‚ and also a figure for the civil rights movement in the 1900s. One of the points he expresses in his letter is the difference between a just and unjust law‚ a morally right law compared to a morally wrong law. A just law
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"Will we be extremists for hate or will we be extremists for love?" Dr. Martin Luther King‚ Jr. states this in his famous " Letter From Birmingham Jail" in which he responds to white clergy-men who critize him for " unwise and untimely demonstrations". During the jail sentence he serves‚ he writes this letter where he addresses the clergymen and expresses his attitude toward the statements made about him. He constructs his response through the use of parallelism‚ allusions‚ and sets the tone of the
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Marcella Patton November 25‚ 2013 Soc.9a.m “Letter From Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King‚ Jr. King spent eight days in his cell. During that time he composed his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." The letter was ostensibly conceived in response to a letter that had recently run in a local newspaper‚ which had claimed that the protests were "unwise and untimely"; however‚ King also quite deliberately wrote his letter for a national audience. The letter reveals King’s strength as a rhetorician
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segregation was the rule of law in almost all public facilities in the City of Birmingham. Since the mid-1950s‚ Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth‚ pastor of the Bethel Baptist Church‚ had been waging a war against segregation. Due to his efforts‚ he may hold the distinction of being a named petitioner in more Supreme Court cases than any other person. On April 2‚ 1963‚ Dr. Martin Luther King‚ Jr.‚ arrived in Birmingham to join Shuttlesworth in a direct action campaign to end segregation. Non-violent
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about being bullied. In the same way an oppressor is someone who gains from other people’s suffering or misfortune. Which poses the question‚ should the oppressor have a say on how the oppressed should feel about inequality? In “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”‚ Martin Luther King Jr‚ responded to a letter by clergymen that were claiming Dr. King’s movement was untimely‚ extreme‚ and violent. In King’s response‚ he addresses their commentaries by quoting known religious figures to appeal to the clergymen’s
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It has been sixty years since the Civil Rights movement began. During that time‚ Civil Rights activists were attempting to combat injustices and discrimination throughout the South and other parts of America. Since its end in 1968‚ many Americans think that there has been real progress made in regards to the issue of injustices in America. A poll conducted in June of 2014 found that nearly eight in ten Americans think there has been real progress made since the 1960s in ridding the country of discrimination
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Dr. Martin Luther King was an equal rights activist whose efforts ended the demand for equality among the people of our nation. Dr. King wrote an open letter titled‚ “Letter from Birmingham Jail” while in jail on April of 1963‚ when segregation was at its greatest in Birmingham‚ Alabama. The letter was a reply directed to several white‚ moderate‚ clergymen who had written an open letter criticizing his actions during the civil rights movement. The increased violence and social injustice caused an
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1. The reason King was in Birmingham is because he was invited there as the president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference‚ and it was his duty to protest injustice and spread freedom through a nonviolent program. As King was invited by one of his affiliates at an official organization‚ he is not an outside‚ but more akin to an important guest. Even if the invitation had not occurred‚ it was still his duty‚ as the prophet of the “gospel of freedom” just as it was Paul’s duty to spread
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Michael Reynolds English 101 001 Dr. Roger West May 13‚ 2013 The sixteenth street Baptist church in Birmingham‚ Alabama used for meetings to protesting the cities unwillingness to desegregate it’s public schools on September 15 1963 a bomb exploded during Sunday school killing Denise McNair‚ Caroline Robertson‚ Cynthia Wesley and Addie Mae Collins‚ it would be fourteen years before anyone was even charged with the crime and many more before all were brought to justice. On that same day Governor
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