This paper analyzed the letters, “A Call for Unity: A letter from Eight White Clergymen” and “Letter from Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King Jr. Both letters on the racial tensions and problems during the 1960s. Racial problems in Alabama were at their peak of tensions and these two letters were written with different issues and claims of how to correct the problems between the black and white communities. The clergymen did not believe what the African Americans were doing with their protests. So the clergymen urged a withdraw from Martin Luther King Jr., and state that he is an extremist that creates violence at the wrong time. This caused King to write his letter responding to the clergymen about what he is standing for and the injustice
