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non-violent protests to combat against racial inequality. King was mostly active throughout the 1950s into the 1960s until his assassination in 1968. He was known for his “I Have a Dream” speech, and was also the author of the “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”, in which he refutes against the white clergymen who say that his non-violent protests were “unwise and untimely.” One of the reasons that he had so much success was because he effectively appealed emotionally to the audience. Within this…

audience to think about a problem that should be of public interest, however, the audience is what makes the letter powerful. The audience sets the context and message of the letter. An example is, Martin Luther King’s infamous “Letter from Birmingham jail”. This letter shows that the audience of a political letter can be much more than just the directly announced audience. Eight Alabama clergymen issued a letter to King expressing their dissatisfaction with how King and the black community…

Introduction Martin Luther King Jr. had many talents, one of his strongest was his ability to convey his message via the written word or oration. In King’s letter from Birmingham jail, he utilized several persuasive methods to gain the reader’s buy-in. Some of the more obvious techniques were two-sided messaging and “ethos (credibility), logos (reason), and pathos (emotion)” (Higgins 2012) to leverage a mutual understanding by the involved parties (p 195). “King’s greatest political pluralism…

Martin Luther King Junior’s Letter from Birmingham Jail Martin Luther King Jr. emphasizes the importance of equality and justice in his letter to the people of Birmingham, Alabama. King writes, from his jail cell, about the injustice he has seen and he offers ways of fixing it. His plans starts with acquiring an understanding of the difference between a just and unjust law and how to react to them. Then his plan requires taking action to abide by and fight for these just laws. The final…

In the ¨Letter from Birmingham Jail¨, Martin Luther King Jr. uses ethical appeals in order to convince the Clergymen of his authority. King uses ethical appeals to influence his audience by making appropriate allusions. This is shown when King says, " I am in Birmingham because injustice is here...and just as the Apostle Paul left his village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus to the far corners of the Greco- Roman world." King is comparing himself to the Apostle Paul, saying that he is…

place in Birmingham, Alabama. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail is a letter that illustrates oppression being a large battle fought in this generation and location. In different ways, Dr. King describes how to dismantle the walls of segregation portrayed with literary devices such as words with strong diction, parallelism, and juxtaposition. Throughout the text of “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” strong diction is implemented to emphasize the severity of the problems in…

“Speech at The March On Washington” by Josephine Baker and “Letter From Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King Jr. both argue about discrimination and making a solution with non-violence such as protesting. To achieve true freedom, you must practice non-violence in order to protect your rights. To begin with, in order to achieve true freedom one must protest peacefully. According to the text “Letter from Birmingham Jail” Baker states “We must come to see that, as the federal courts have…

In Martin Luther King’s JR letter from the Birmingham jail he responded to the statement of concern issued by eight white religious leaders from the south who called his movement “unwise and untimely”. His said that his demonstration was for equality and it was nonviolent and legal but he was still put in jail. His letter was very deep and long I wasn’t missing anything I understood everything he was trying to say. Even though the letter was written in august 1963, a lot of the struggles for…

Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” encompasses the purpose behind the movement and reveals King as a strong rhetorician. Through his letter, King provides a detailed look into the racial inequality taking place in that time. King’s eloquent response to the clergymen dispels their criticisms and presents a strong argument for racial equality. Throughout the letter, King references different philosophers in order to establish himself as an intelligent and legitimate authority.…

Martin Luther King Jr. died trying to stop racism, so today we shall finish what he has begun and put an end to racism. Martin Luther King Jr. went to the Birmingham Jail after a peaceful protest while there he wrote a letter one quote from this letter is “ We have waited for more than three-hundred and forty years for our God-given and Constitutional rights.” As Reverend Dr.Martin Luther King Jr. showed us in his life's work to end racism, we can act to bring people of all races together as we…