Letter+From+Birmingham+City+Jail

• The 1960’s when racial segregation was being fought, like a revolutionary war against the oppressive whites.

• Dr. King wanted to get his point across that civil disobedience would get the message to the higher powers. The purpose was to tell eight **//White//** clergymen that court systems could not solve such problems as these.

• Martin Luther King Jr. uses very persuasive words to //try// and make the clergymen understand his position and why it is right in his opinion.

• The writing is about the racial segregation in America, and what is happening in America to the people of color. It is about how a man makes a difference with words.

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 * How did this make you feel?
 * What does it mean to you?
 * What do you think its purpose was?