Southern Christian Leadership Conference

In his letter, “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, leader in the civil rights movement, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., powerfully replies to criticisms regarding his cause and his actions. King’s purpose is to prove to his criticizers that his cause is right and just. He adopts a condemnatory tone in order to convey his disapproval with the clergymen’s criticisms and excuses. It’s Dr. King’s strong use of diction that has the greatest impact on making this piece so powerful and effective. Diction Dr.…

Part B: Justification and Analysis Submit a typed justification (500-600 words) of your visual representation outlining the process you used to create it and the connection to Racism and/or Discrimination. • You will need to analyse ONE text you have studied in class and explain how this influenced the creation of your visual representation. (400 words) The text I have studied Martin Luther King had been delivered in 1963 August 23. Martin Luther King had performed a speech called 'I have a…

Martin Luther was a segregated speaker. He spoke for civil rights for African-Americans. He was a part of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1954. He wanted to see equality between blacks and whites. He accepted the leadership of a Negro nonviolent demonstration of desperate times in America. He was a leader and a hero to blacks all across the US. Martin Luther would publicly speak for the civil rights of black. His most famous speech I Have a Dream, he explains…

James Earl Ray is the man responsible for civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. death. On April 4, 1968, Ray shot king standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Hotel. The police confirmed that Ray shot king using a rifle from a window of a rented room across the street (“James”). He immediately fled from the scene and it took over two months for the FBI to catch him in London (Biography). Ray pled guilty for murder in 1969 and was sentenced to ninety nine years. After three days, Ray tried…

(Thelen 11). Since the beginning of his leadership role in the civil rights movement, there had been a close correspondence in King’s thought between his understanding of God and his interpretation of social justice. Several things had changed significantly in the civil rights movement and in King’s leadership during the last period of his life. Many blacks and whites were alienated by King’s disapproval to the United States’…

encourage students by having the SCLC, an organization formed by DR.King that would conduct non-violent protest and fight for civil rights, organize a conference. Martin Luther King Jr. encouraged the students to continue with that they were doing, and “by August of 1960, the sit-ins had been successful in ending segregation at lunch counters in 27 southern cities”(Martin Luther King Jr. Biography). Dr. King also held a campaign in Birmingham, Alabama. Though the campaign was ultimately violent…

In 1963, there was a letter written to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by a group of clergymen. The clergymen addressed specifically the recent civil right movements in Alabama. These men were not in good spirits about “outsiders” advocating for change because the inconveniences these efforts had caused. Shortly after Dr. King read this outrageous letter he wrote a letter of his own. Dr. King explained how the Negro Community is not the cause of tension. The tension has always been there, they are…

1:1--- After considering the four roles of the artist that author Henry Sayre notes; I believe that the most important role for Andy Warhol 1963 is to make a visual record of the people, places and events or their time and place. I believe that Warhol was making a records of a specific time in the events of May 1963 Birmingham, Alabama when the police employee dog to attacks and fires hoses against the demonstrators led by martin Luther King Jr. I believe he used the red, white and blue colors…

MUJEEB-UR-REHMAN’S SIX POINTS INTRODUCTION: Sheikh Mujib-ur-Rehman was the start dad of Bangladesh. During the idea of Ayub Khan and Yahya Khan, he performed many in Pakistan state guidelines as a well-known head of the Awami Team in Southern Pakistan. He offered a Six-Point program on 5 Feb 1966, together with his celebration and required the Pakistan government to accept them and to make use of them the way they were. The primary government of Pakistan was showing detest for the…

In Martin Luther King’s “A Letter From Birmingham Jail” King addresses the criticism received from clergymen,onlookers and supporters alike. In which he states “Freedom isn’t simply given by the oppressor, it must be demanded from the oppressed.” During the 1960s in America (Civil Rights Era), King shun brightly believing that America’s racist agenda could be dismantled through unity,non-violence, along with the effective use of our rights.In this letter, King respectively addresses his…