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    of “The Letter from Birmingham Jail” On April 3rd‚ 1963‚ the Birmingham campaign began and people were protesting against racism and injustice. The non-violent campaign was coordinated by King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights. However‚ King was roughly arrested with other main leaders of the campaign on April 12th for disobeying the rules of “no parading‚ demonstrating‚ boycotting‚ trespassing and picketing”. While jailed‚ King read a letter

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    In the 1960’s there was an uprising of sorts. The “black” communities were beginning to realize their constitutional rights…or the lack there of. There were a few bold souls that decided to take a stand‚ no matter what the consequences. Many know of Rosa Parks‚ the woman who decided to take a stand (no pun intended) on a local bus‚ refusing to give up her seat near the front and move to the back. Others participated at “sit in’s” inside diners labeled “whites only”. For every attempt of expressing

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    In "Civil Disobedience"‚ why does Thoreau refuse to pay his poll tax? In Thoreau’s essay "Resistance to Civil Government"‚ Henry David Thoreau outlines a utopian society in which each individual would be responsible for governing himself. His opposition to a centralized government is an effort to disassociate with the American government‚ which at the time was supporting slavery and unjustly invading Mexico. While the individual rule would work well for Thoreau who is a man of conscience‚ it does

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    Claire Kuo  Freshman Seminar 125G  2/20/2015  Michael Leblanc  Dear Mr. King:    I have carefully read your “Letter From Birmingham Jail”. I really admire your  courage and respect your opinion. I especially like one of my favorite quotes “ I am in  Birmingham because injustice is here.”(Letter from Birmingham Jail‚ Page 1) You cannot  ignore the injustice simply because it happens in your sight. So you came to Birmingham and  against the segregation. In my article “The Insufficiency of Honesty”

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    Dylan Knox English 111 (Red) Mrs. Jones October 7‚ 2013 Essay #2 1.) Martin Luther King wrote “Letter from Birmingham Jailfrom a jail cell in Alabama in April of 1963‚ hence the title. He was arrested for leading a non-violent protest against the discriminatory Jim Crow laws. These laws separated facilities between Blacks and Whites such as restaurants‚ schools‚ lodging‚ public facilities and many more. The Jim Crow laws brought about one of the famous staples of racial oppression in America

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    Martin Luther KingJr.’s‚ “Letter from Birmingham Jail‚” was written in 1963; during the time African Americans were fighting for equality among races. We can tell this by the vocabulary used in his writing such as “Negro‚” which was used at one time‚ and is no longer considered‚ “politically correct. “ The purpose for the letter is that Martin Luther King Jr. was trying to convince the white clergymen that him and his “People’s” actions were completely unnecessary for the situation. When doing

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    “We have waited for more than 340 years for our constitutional and God-given rights. The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jet-like speed toward gaining political independence‚ but we still creep at horse-and-buggy pace toward gaining a cup of coffee at a lunch counter. Perhaps it is easy for those who have never felt the stinging darts of segregation to say‚ “Wait.” But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim; when

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    Dr. Martin Luther KingJr.: A Master of Peaceful Protests and Persuasive Rhetoric To fully understand Dr. KingsLetter from a Birmingham Jail” you must understand what times were like when King wrote his letter‚ who Dr. King was‚ and the criticism that Dr. King faced. The 1950 ’s and 1960 ’s were turbulent times for African Americans as they fought for equal rights as Americans. Jim Crow laws in the South dictated where blacks could sit in a restaurant or on a bus‚ they excluded blacks from

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    Thoreau’s Ideas About “Civil Disobedience” Outdated Today? “Civil disobedience” is an intentional and non-violent disobedience of law by an individual who believes that a certain law is unjust and who is willing to accept the penalty for breaking that law to bring about change and public awareness. When Henry David Thoreau wrote “On The Duty of Civil Disobedience” in 1849‚ he advocated that democracy in America could only be improved by individual activism and civil disobedience to unjust laws. Thoreau’s

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    the Letter From Birmingham JailMartin Luther King Jr. creates a powerful response to a statements from eight white Alabama clergymen opposing his sit-ins and marches in Birmingham‚ Alabama. In the letter King is defending his peaceful demonstrations and stance on nonviolence. According to the clergymen‚ everyone should live life by common sense and by law and order and feel that the battle for integration should take place in the local and federal courts and not by breaking the law. King agrees

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