Martin Luther King
At the time Dr. King wrote “Letter from Birmingham City Jail,” blacks were going through tremendous struggles in life. Blacks were shunned from one side of the nation to the other. Dr. King had been arrested at the time and was locked up in a Birmingham City Jail. Birmingham was known for its racial discrepancies, and for its police brutality record. In King’s letter he appeals to many emotions as pathos, ethos, and logos to appeal to his audience. King starts his letter by saying “While confined here in the Birmingham city jail.” (King, 2,842) This is important because King is making a strong point right away in his letter. He is saying that they threw him in jail for what he believed in and he was okay with that because he was standing for what he believed in. Birmingham in 1963 was toxic with racism and segregationist to the core. Not long before, in the wake of the Montgomery bus boycott and the desegregation of Little Rock’s schools, 17 of its black churches had been bombed. Indeed, there had been more unsolved bombings of black homes and churches in Birmingham than in any other city in the United States. King does a great job bringing his audience to reality when he talks about h
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Approximate Word count = 808
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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