Why We Can T Wait Analysis

“Why We Can’t Wait” was written by Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1963 and published in 1964. A little side note is that John F. Kennedy was a big supporter of King’s movement. A major event that happened during this phase of history was the March on Washington, where King gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. Those two things complimented the Civil Rights movement, however, King and his followers still received criticism for their efforts in trying to build a better and equal country. Why We Can’t Wait, was the book of its century, in which King presents examples and argues to explain the Civil Rights movement and to get supporters to continue in their efforts at a crucial time in U.S. history. The book hits on some major points such as racial discrimination, a nonviolence, the Civil Rights Movement and his letter from the Birmingham jail which is also a chapter from the book.
King starts the book with an introduction that compares the lives of two children, a girl from Birmingham, Alabama and a boy from Harlem, New York. Both kids lived in a poverty type community with no opportunities for the African …show more content…
The idea of pursuing legal rights the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was a vigorous thing, but argued that the strategy is very slow and results in only small wins. But on the other side, he condemns the ones who call for a violent revolution, believing that only fighting and drawing blood will result only result in more problems as whites retaliate with greater violence. King speaks of nonviolence as the only way to these positions. He conducts several arguments to support the nonviolence as an effective means of gaining a civil rights revolution. King looks to the economic boycotts of the American Revolution and to Mohandas K. Gandhi’s leadership opposed to British colonial rule in India as prime examples of nonviolence that has proven effective in the