Question

What was Martin Luther King, Jr., referencing in the passage that brought him to lead a protest in Birmingham?

Answer 1

Mr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a social activist and baptist minister who played a key role in the Americans civil rights movement from the mid 1950s until his assassination  in 1968.

The passage that brought him to lead a protest in Birmingham  according the his letter from the jail: "There are just laws and there are unjust laws  I would agree with St. Augustine that an unjust law is not a law at all" and he cited to Mr. Thomas Aquinas an unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal and natural law.

Answer 2

boy u fine but In 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested and sent to jail because he and others were protesting the treatment of blacks in Birmingham, Alabama. A court had ordered that King could not hold protests in Birmingham. Birmingham in 1963 was a hard place for blacks to live in.

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