In order to understand the civil rights movement of the 1960s, it is imperative to understand the goals of one man and how he attempted to communicate within his own community and the society he lived in. That man is civil rights activist and Baptist minister Martin Luther King Jr. When arrested in Birmingham for coordinating sit-ins against racism, he wrote a letter that reflected on the promise that he was invited because there was injustice. This letter was directly addressed to his fellow clergymen in order to get their understanding and prayers for broken promises that were addressed in the United States constitution. Not only were these promises in the constitution but god himself wanted men to be equal and King saw that promise by god
