King as the leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC, an organized group in the south) has the obligation to allocate any aid to its affiliate organizations. The Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights, a local affiliate in Birmingham, invited the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to "engage in a nonviolent direct action program". Dr. King and the SCLC graciously accepted the invitation, leading to the demonstrations and the clergy letter urging local citizens not to support exhibition.

In nonviolent campaign there are four steps. The three steps before direct action: (1) Collecting data to conclude whether injustices are occurring; (2) conciliation or negotiation and (3) "self-purification. In Dr. King's letter, he tells the clergy that it is high time for direct action. These steps are necessary

Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth has been a tireless civil rights worker for more than 40 years now. Founding the Alabama Christian Movement for civil rights in 1956, and the next year co founding Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) with Dr. Martin Luther King. Rev. Shuttlesworth can be cited as the main influence for King's full-fledged support of the Direct action movement in Birmingham Alabama. It is known that King came to aid the Birmingham movement at the direct request of Shuttlesworth. He has been beaten dozens of times by Klansmen and others. His home has been bombed twice, and he has been arrested more than thirty times. He is now plus 65 and still an avid board member SCLC, an active reverend, and public speaker.

In this light King, his organization and affiliates might be seen as the levee of peace; in actuality King's nonviolent direct action was being taken as an aggressive approach to the race issues of the time. As it turns out King embraced this classification, comparing this extremism to that of Jesus' extreme love, Amos' extremism for justice, and Lincoln for his extremism in foresight of a new equal America. King takes this title and calls it creative extremism, something he feels the south may need.

Like the white moderate, the church has also let King down. King has boundless love for the church and had the feeling that they would ally themselves to the righteous pursuit of Negro equality. He was sadly disappointed. Instead the "white church" has become the enemy in some cases, or the mute bystander, neutral to any side. When a religious leader does call on his congregation to obey desegregation, he solicits them to obey because it is a law of the nation state and not one of high Christian morality. For this King is greatly disillusioned.

accountability. In the religious examples of a just or unjust law two things are apparent. First in King's writing, when he makes an example of an unjust law a correlation with religion is made, it always seems to parallel an unjust law with

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