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The Literary Techniques of MLK On April 19, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote an open letter to eight clergymen who questioned his involvement in non-violent protests in Birmingham, Alabama. The Letter of Birmingham Jail brilliantly appeals to both the clergymen and a broader audience. King masterfully uses strategies such as narrating, exemplifying and comparing-contrasting. For the purpose of this essay, we will focus on the literary technique of Comparing-Contrasting in King’s letter.…

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…

Born Michael Luther King, Jr., on January 15, 1929, Michael changed his name to Martin. Martin Luther went to school in Georgia where he completed high school at fifteen years old. He got a B.A. degree in 1948 from Morehouse School, a college for African Americans of Atlanta from which both his dad and granddad had graduated. He was chosen president of a predominantly white senior class at Crozer Philosophical Theological school in Pennsylvania. In 1951, Martin was granted the B.D. Martin…

verbal abuse from white racist (Martin Luther King Jr. Biography). MLK quickly took action to 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.…

refutes the first argument of the clergymen, King is an outsider, by stating, “I . . . am here because I was invited here. I am here because I have organizational ties here” (“Letter” p 2). King was the president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference which supports his credibility as a civil rights activist. Furthermore, while King explains the imminent resistance of the oppressed, he states: The…

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…

As we all grew up learning Mr. Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the most influential people in American history. He paved the way for not only African Americans but everyday people all over the US. Martin Luther King Jr. was just an everyday man who wanted everyone to be treated equal no matter their race, color, or beliefs. He thought that neither man nor woman should be judged by the color of their skin but the quality of their character and what they had to offer to society. If it wasn’t for…

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…