Question

Referring to King's letter from Birmingham Jail, how does this letter help summarize the atmosphere in Birmingham in the early 1960s.

Answer 1

Answer:

King's letter helped summarize the atmosphere in Birmingham in the early 1960’s as a time of crisis. Birmingham in the 1960’s was a time filled with racism an unjustified laws. King believed that you could “create a kind of tension in society that will help people to rise from the dark depths…”

Answer 2

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Explanation:

King's goal in issuing his "letter from a Birmingham jail" was to address criticisms directed against him by individuals who unarguably should have known better. The teachings of Jesus, he repeated, provided for the nonviolent activities that were solely intended to correct injustices.

Any law that degrades human personality is unjust. All segregation statutes are unjust because segregation distorts the soul and damages the personality … Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., left, and Rev. Ralph Abernathy, right, are arrested by police during the demonstration in Birmingham.

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.