“Letter from Birmingham Jail” is King’s response to a letter by a group of white clergymen. Why do you think he didn’t simply send his letter directly to them? Why did he have the letter published so everyone could read it?

On April 12, 1963, Martin Luther King Junior was arrested in Birmingham, Alabama for “parading without a permit” during a protest. On April 16, 1963, Kings wrote “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, this letter was in response to an open letter written by a group of white clergymen. King didn’t just send the letter to the clergymen, he had it published for everyone to read. King had his letter published because he wanted everyone to hear what he had to say.

Explanation:

His letter wasn’t just for that group of white Clergyman, it was for anyone willing to listen to him. In his letter he wrote “You may well ask: “Why direct action? Why sit-ins, marches and so forth? Isn’t negotiation a better path?” You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored. ”. This answered questions that many people asked and helped to explain why he did what he did.

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