Ms. Thompson
AP Language and Composition
16 October 2015
Rhetorical Precis: Letter from a Birmingham In the letter Letter from a Birmingham (1963), Martin Luther King Jr., an American Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement who is known for his usage of nonviolent civil disobedience, asserts that those who have never experience segregation easily say to wait and to not fight back, as they don’t know what it feel like to be treated brutally (I guess it is easy for those of you ...), so he explains thoroughly what makes them, himself included, be in the right to stand up and protest against segregation. (Sentence 1) Luther King Jr. illustrates this by addressing the horrific