King’s Letter

FRQ #1, Concept Application.


Read the following passage and answer the prompt that follows.


—Martin Luther King, Letter from Birmingham Jail, August 1, 1963


(A) Describe the type of law the author willingly and publicly violated.

(B) In the context of this letter, explain how the author and groups seeking to change the law did change the law.

(C) Explain how another institution of government shapes policy around this issue.