Letter From Birmingham Jail Analysis

What do you think the author’s thesis, or main argument is, and why? Be sure to put his thesis in your own words.

In addition, according to “Freedom’s Children”, people experience struggles during the Civil Rights Movement. For example, Joseph Lacey, one of the African American witnessed the attack people on the Freedom Riders in Montgomery. Freedom Riders were among the most famous of the Civil Right. It is a protest toward the segregated waiting rooms, restaurant, and buses. Joseph Lacey state in the book that he saw the Freedom Riders beaten. He cried and couldn't believe that human being beat up other human beings like crazy (Text 1: Freedom’s Children, page 73). Joseph Lacey’s description in the book shows one of the struggles that people face during the Civil Rights Movement, violent. And most of the violence happens between different race, even though they are all human being. This is what also makes Civil Rights Movement such an inhumanity movement in America history. The other struggle that people face during the Civil Rights Movement is people get attack by the America police. For example, Children’s Crusade in Birmingham, Alabama, people who attend the march no matter what age may get attack by police or the police dog. Children’s Crusade is a march with more than one thousand student skipping classes and gather at Sixth Street Baptist Church in downtown Birmingham, Alabama. According to “ Freedom’s Children”, Audrey Faye Hendricks mention that when he watched the first demonstrator, the saw a police dog attack an elderly black man watching. He couldn’t believe that the police did not take care of the dog and let it attack an elder man (Text 1: Freedom’s Children, page 78). This description shows one of the struggles that African American who’s in different age face during the march during the Civil Rights Movement, attack by police and the police

Martin Luther King Jr. was a civil rights advocate who organized nonviolent protests against segregation across the South. The movements he organized greatly impacted America's view on segregation. After receiving a message from eight clergymen who strongly disapproved of his protest in Birmingham, King responded with the "Letter from Birmingham Jail". In his response made references to several biblical and historical figures, and attempted to evoke compassion from the audience by describing saddening stories.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote the “Letter from Birmingham Jail” in order to address the biggest issue in Birmingham and the United States at the time (racism) and to also address the critics he received from the clergymen. The letter discusses the great injustices happening toward the Black community in Birmingham and although it is primarily aimed at the clergymen King writes the letter for all to read. In his “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” Martin Luther King Jr. uses logos, alliteration/repetition, and ethos to back up his belief that nonviolent protesting and disobedience is the most effective means to protest

The civil rights movement has caused many issues for African Americans, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. writes “Letter From Birmingham Jail” as a response to the clergymen who share a different view with segregation. King placed his views from the idea that everyone is equal, rather than one is better because of their skin color. His letter from Birmingham jail shared many points, with the ending of segregation being the main goal. With his familiar clergymen with disagreements, he rebukes their letters with his take on the civil rights movement. His letter has an amazing pull from different views that unites America as one. Dr. King uses incites from the black community to share their side of segregation, while also presenting an argument using ethics, facts and emotion that establish his letter as unique.

In the first presentation, I noticed an event called the Greensboro Sit-ins. This was a single event that sparked a nationwide movement and flood of support for the civil rights movement and the issue of business owners withholding service from those who were not white. On February 1st, 1960, 4 students of the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University sat at a whites-only lunch table, requested service, and were then denied and asked to leave. When they left, they went to tell campus leaders what had happened and as a result gained people that wanted to participate in the sit-in. It is said that “the next morning twenty-nine neatly dressed male and female [NCATSU] students sat at the Woolworth’s lunch counter,” the same counter where those first four students sat (NorthCarolinaHistory.org). After this happened, protests occurred each week and hundreds of students were showing up at Woolworth’s. Following this, more and more students from around the US were staging sit ins at segregated lunch counters as a form of non-violent protest against discrimination.

“A Letter from Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King Jr. was written in the margins of a letter posted by the clergymen of Alabama at this time that sparked his interest and while he inhabited the jail cell for parading around without a permit. This time allowed him the ability to respond wholeheartedly to this cynical oppressing. King’s letter addresses specific points presented in the Clergymen’s and this direct response distinguishes King’s strong points through his powerful writing.  Unethical and immoral mentions came to the attention of the Minister through the letter, and he expressed his differing views and defended his ideals and actions through Aristotle’s three rhetorical devices, ethos, logos, and pathos.

Obviously my primary motivation for writing my Summary and Response Draft is that it is a requirement for my English Composition Class. Having said that, I also have another heartfelt motivation for writing my Summary and Response about Martin Luther King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”. I have studied about Martin Luther King throughout elementary, middle and high school and I have a very high respect for Mr. King’s intelligence and his commitment to the fight for equality of the African Americans through the use of peaceful protests. But,

Non-violence was the key to the civil rights movement. The civil rights movement was a mass popular movement to secure for African Americans equal access and opportunities for the basic privileges and rights of the U.S. citizenship. African Americans used the approach of non-violence to get important issues handled. A few of the important issues was to end segregation, racial inequality, and get voting rights. Although it took several years to get these acts handled, African Americans were determined not to give up. Anne Moody wrote a biography on her life growing up in Mississippi, and how she was impacted during the civil rights movement. Throughout Anne Moody’s book Coming of Age in Mississippi she showed that she could get through difficult

In the early 1960s, Birmingham was, culturally and forced by police, one of the most racially divided cities in the United States. Blacks did not have the same legal and economic rights as their white brethren. When attention was drawn to this issue, they were faced with violent responses. It was conceivably the most segregated city in the country. Protests began to form to fight for equal chance of employment at businesses and to end segregation in public places such as stores and schools. Sit-ins were soon organized after the failed protests to produce a copious amount of arrests and draw the country's attention towards Birmingham. Shortly after, the amount of adults to take part in the sit-ins fell harshly and there were new volunteers. High school and college students rose to the occasion and took part in passively fighting for their rights. With the addition of the students also came many of the SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference). Among those who came with the SCLC was a very important guest. One who was jailed, had an article criticizing himself and his methods, and was able to produce a letter in which he responded to the writers of the article while incarcerated. This man

Over five decades have passed since the passage of the famous 1964 Civil Rights Act, the 1965 Voting Rights Act, and the end of institutionalized discrimination and racism. The Civil Rights Movement, in many ways was a great success for all African Americans and other “minorities” in the United States and around the world. Yet, when asked about this tremendously important period, most people – black and white of all academic backgrounds – will know only little about it. Most definitely, however, the people asked will know one name: Martin Luther King, Jr. Generally, as Fred Powledge puts it, “in the minds of untold numbers of Americans, for example, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was the civil rights movement. Thought it up, led

Nekima Levy-Pounds presented at the University of Minnesota Duluth. She went through a timeline of the Civil Rights Movement and what has happened here in Minnesota with the Black Lives Matter Movement. She also talked a lot about the war on drugs and how that has influenced the Civil Rights Movement. She also talked about the increase in law enforcement and how that affected the Civil Rights Movement. She then went more into the Minnesota Civil Rights Movement and what has been done here in Minnesota.

Section 1: Identification and Evaluation of sources This investigation will focus on the question: to what extent did the techniques used in the Civil Rights Movement were inspired by Martin Luther King Jr.? To fully address this question, Martin Luther King Jr.’s life and the events occurring from 1930-1970 to African Americans. The investigation explores the life of the African American Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King Jr., to understand what brought him to adopt the role of leader, and the techniques used to achieve the final purpose.

I remember learning about the civil right movement when I was in middle school, but reading through your slides I learned a lot more. I learned that Malcolm X, one of the civil rights leader was violent with his process. I don't think I was taught in school about the violent leaders. You also talked about Jackie Robinson becoming the first African American to play in the MLB. My presentation related to yours because my presentation was on Jackie Robinson and Josh Gibson. Jackie Robinson was a great help in ending segregation in the 1950's.

The civil rights movement is one of the most memorable events that has taken place in the United States, starting Martin Luther King Jr. He had the option to lead protest violently or nonviolently, and he believed nonviolent protests were the best weapon to fight for equal rights. Though African Americans still have inequality to this day. While King and other leaders fought peacefully in the past, protester Wes Annac believes America has the mindset that fighting violently like riots are the only way to get their voice heard which is not the way for voices to be heard.