One who reads “Letters From a Birmingham Jail” in this day and age would be petrified and disgusted at the back story to Dr. Martin Luther King’s imprisonment. The sheer fact that he was arrested for nonviolent and legal protest would aggravate any man, however it is apparent that Dr. King took the opportunity to capitalize on the situation and transform it into an aspiring lecture. I believe that Dr. King’s purpose in writing the letter was a combination of attempting to move, delight, and teach what should be a rudimentary lesson to the clergymen who criticized his actions of protest after the mayoral elections. In some of King’s closing remarks he discusses how some primarily white churches deem to see civil movement as unrelated to
