What does this author think about the issue? Use the T-Chart to compare the perspectives of Dr. King and the clergy in regard to the Birmingham Campaign. Then write two sentences about how the writer of the article most likely felt about the issue. "Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever," King wrote. Blacks were tired of stores and parks closed to their children and themselves. They were tired of police and mob brutality aimed at them for no other reason than the color of their skin. To the black community, "'wait' has almost always meant 'never,'" King wrote.

King praised those few whites who supported desegregation laws and who had joined in protests. But King also wrote that he was disappointed that many white priests, rabbis, and ministers failed to act morally and to support desegregation. King did not want violence and bloodshed, he wrote. But he wanted to change unjust laws and allow black Americans a chance to be accepted in their own country. And he didn't want to wait.