Martin Luther King Jr. was a Civil right promoter against injustices and racism against the blacks. The letter is in response to white clergymen written article in a newspaper.
<em>He believed 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.</em>
Martin Luther King was arrested and jailed in April 1963 after he led a group of black protesters who were against white segregation and who wanted a boycott of white stores during the Easter period. While in the Birmingham jail, he wrote a letter that was directed to the clergymen who described his activities as untimely and unwise. He felt they deserved a response because he thought they were men of genuine goodwill.
The 7000 words letter was a call for 'constructive, non-violent tensions' that would lead to the end of unjust laws that did not favor everyone. This letter was useful in setting the pace for a renewed civil rights movement.
KAY GALLANT: Most Americans approved strongly of the economic growth and improved living conditions during the nineteen twenties. They supported the conservative Republican policies of President Calvin Coolidge. And they had great faith in the country's business leaders and economic system.
HARRY MONROE: The spirit of protest was especially strong in serious American writing during the nineteen twenties. Many of the greatest writers of this period hated the new business culture.
BOB DOUGHTY: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION – American history in VOA Special English.
Because popular sovereignty was well supported because it allowed the local citizens of a territory to decide if slavery was to be allowed or illegal. Stephen A. Douglas pushed for popular sovereignty during the 1840's.
Manifest Destiny implied that the U.S. had the God-given right and obligation to expand westward, spread their beliefs and culture, and obtain new land.
