Southern Christian Leadership Conference

volunteers, especially college students who were home from school on their winter break, participated in picking up boycotters and delivering them to their destinations (58-61). In was in part due to the Montgomery Bus Boycott that the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), consisting of several “leaders of various protest movements around the South (67) was organized in Atlanta. In 1957, Dr. King was elected President of the SCLC. According to Joseph E Lowrey, what made the SCLC so…

Martin Luther King Jr. was a famous and respectable man when he was alive. He was a leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He gave many sermons and speeches in his day. On one very important day, 4 February 1968, he gave a sermon called “The Drum Major Instinct;” it was based off an adaptation of J. Wallace Hamilton’s “Drum-Major Instinct.” In King’s sermon, he explains what the drum major instinct is and why you need to be cautious with it. King believed that you shouldn’t use…

To sum up, in his letter in response to the 8 white clergymen who were critiquing the mass protests he and the civil rights community was involved in while in Birmingham, Martin Luther King discussed how what was taking place in the United States, particularly in Birmingham, is unjust which is why people were protesting against. Also, that the church is not as great as it once was since its followers have not accepted African-Americans as equal, instead segregation was still taking place. Within…

In the novel, March, John Lewis illustrates how the desire to do better for oneself will always be met with resistance from others. Lewis portrays how the desire to do better for oneself will always be met with resistance from others through state-sanctioned police brutality against peaceful protesters. To illustrate this, Lewis recounts how Joe Rauh arranged for a series of testimonies on television, one of which included Fanny Lou Hamer’s. Hamer recollects how she was arrested after attending…

In the 1960s, the American Civil Rights Movement was strongly impacted by Martin Luther King Jr. Sitting in solitary confinement in Birmingham Jail, he strongly advocated against racism and worked to successfully improve conditions for African Americans. In Martin Luther King Jr.’s, Letter from Birmingham Jail, he achieves the message of racial equality through utilizing the rhetorical devices of addressing the counter argument, rhetorical question, diction, and imagery. King uses rhetorical…

Analysis of Letter From a Birmingham Jail In 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. was asked to go to Birmingham to engage in a nonviolent direct-action program and was arrested as a result of this protest. A letter from several clergymen arrived to him during his incarceration criticizing his work as untimely and unwise. Martin Luther King responded to their critique in a “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” and explained the necessity of his presence. He explains that his actions were thoroughly planned out.…

Martin Luther King Jr’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” responds to the eight clergymen’s letter condemning his nonviolent demonstrations, labeling him as an extremist. King’s usage of allusions, antithesis, and analogy to build his credibility and appeal to the emotions of his moderate audience justify his extremist actions and persuades the reader to act against injustices. King addresses the clergymen’s accusation of King’s “extreme measures” by creating analogies to justify his actions. He…

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…

In Letter from Birmingham Jail crafted by Martin Luther King Jr. the message is clear - Dr. King wants to eradicate all social injustices. "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." Within the walls of Birmingham, Alabama, Martin Luther King Jr. created a comprehensive letter in response to a pannel of criticizing clergymen and towards the common man, or as King calls the "white moderate". Here he defends his strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism. As he writes, Dr. King…

disobedience displayed in Birmingham, Alabama with act of self-purification physically and mentally; he believed it was the key to a successful direct action. First, MLK seen the injustices in Birmingham and promised the leaders of the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights…