letter from birmingham jail promoted the principle of nonviolent resistance to racism.
letter from birmingham jail promoted the principle of nonviolent resistance to racism.
letter from birmingham jail promoted the principle of?
nonviolent resistance to racism
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the letter from birmingham jail, also known as the letter from birmingham city jail and the negro is your brother, is an open letter written on april 16, 1963, by martin luther king jr. the letter defends the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism. it says that people have a moral responsibility to break unjust laws and to take direct action rather than waiting potentially forever for justice to come through the courts. responding to being referred to as an "outsider", king writes, "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere".
letter from birmingham jail
using scraps of paper given to him by a janitor, notes written on the margins of a newspaper, and later a legal pad given to him by sclc attorneys, king wrote his essay "letter from birmingham jail". it responded to eight politically moderate white clergymen who accused king of agitating local residents and not giving the incoming mayor a chance to make any changes. bass suggested that "letter from birmingham jail" was pre-planned, as was every move king and his associates made in birmingham. the essay was a culmination of many of king's ideas, which he had touched on in earlier writings. king's arrest attracted national attention, including that of corporate officers of retail chains with stores in downtown birmingham. after king's arrest, the chains' profits began to erode. national business owners pressed the kennedy administration to intervene. king was released on april 20, 1963.
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