Letter From Birmingham Jail

“It is clear, then, that rhetorical study, in its strict sense, is concerned with the modes of persuasion. Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.” According to Aristotle’s “Rhetoric”, rhetoric modes of persuasion are based on three appeals: logical, ethical, and emotional. These appeals will be used to analyze two very controversial letters from the civil rights movement era. When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was jailed in Birmingham, Alabama, a local newspaper published “The Letter from the Eight White Clergymen” in criticism of the direct-action, non-violent demonstrations by Martin Luther King and the African-American community. Also, the clergymen charged Dr. King as being an “outsider” and stated that the demonstrations in Birmingham were “unwise and untimely”. To defend himself and the demonstrations, Dr. Martin Luther king wrote a response to the clergymen in which he justifies the need for his presence in the civil rights movement in Birmingham and explains the necessity of the demonstrations. When compared, Dr. King’s arguments are more convincing and effective than those of the clergymen b

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Approximate Word count = 1252
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)