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In his response to the clergymen, “Letter From a Birmingham Jail,” Dr. King answers their accusations and criticisms in order to create a call to end segregation. He uses his credibility as a civil rights leader and religious figure, as well as his extensive education, to prove sound judgment and successfully show why he belongs in Birmingham.
Reason 1: In his letter, King immediately offers his credentials, explaining that he is the president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and in Birmingham at the behest of The Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights.
Reason 2: In addition to his position as a leader in the civil rights movement, Dr. King’s vast religious education and upbringing aid him in responding to the clergymen’s accusation that he, as an "outsider," has no place in Birmingham.
Reason 3: King shows that his conscience and his comprehension of justice enable him to distinguish between "just" and "unjust" laws.
Reason 4 (optional): In response to the clergymen’s call for diplomacy, King concedes that this course of action is the ultimate goal of his movement.
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Dr.King displays an imploring argument in order to influence his fellow clergy men to consider his side. He uses his religious credibility to convince his audience he is worth listnening to, and that at least somewhere they have common ground. His religious credibility also helps to support his emotionally appealing examples of whats happening to the black community in Birmingham.
ReplyDelete1. In Dr. kings letter, he states his position to the clergymen; telling them he is the the president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He uses his stance in christianity as a way to appeal to the clergy men that they at least they have common ground somewhere, and in this reality, they can at least consider what he has to say.
2. Dr. King uses his position and stance to help get to his audience more emotionally. Since there Beliefs are the same, they can at least view his emotional examples in a similar ligh that he does.
3. Dr. king also uses religious examples and text to help appeal to his credibility. In this, the audience can relate to him and as they read on, and grow to feel that this man is worth considering. He also uses these religious examples to support his emotional ones, comparing the texts to his civil rights struggles and short comings.
Dr. King wrote “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” in response to the clergymen who criticized his actions in Birmingham. In his response, Dr. King informs his audience of his social and religious status to strengthen his credibility. He uses emotional appeals to persuade the clergymen that his non-violent actions are just and overdue.
ReplyDelete1. Dr. King begins establishing credibility early on in his response by informing the clergymen of his role as president of the Southern Christian Leadership conference.
2. In his response, Dr. King addresses the long overdue need to stop the racial injustice which has been taking place in Birmingham and across the country.
3. Dr. King illustrates his vast understanding of the laws and the consequences that will be faced while taking non-violent actions in bringing the underlying tension of racial segregation to the surface.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from a Birmingham jail" encourages his readers to acknowledge the plight of African Americans by using examples of the injustice faced in Birmingham, expressing the need for religious support to aid in racial equality.
ReplyDelete1. Dr, King implores his fellow clergymen to think about their request by countering their accusations of timeliness and necessity of their rally by saying that not only is it necessary but is long over due.
2. He uses examples of how the white church stands idly by and says it is not the gospel's problem, yet reminds them how some people have been ostracized by their church and expelled for speaking out about civil rights.
3. Dr. King pleads with his readers (white clergymen of Birmingham) reach out and support the need for racial equality by calling them his brothers which brings them on what is hoped to be an even keel.
Thesis:In the "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" Dr. King was writing to his fellow clergymen in his position in Birmingham. Dr. King uses his religious background to show his credibility and emotional stance on the movement.
ReplyDelete1. When Dr. King wrote to his fellow clergymen, he was writing for justice for racial equality. Explaining his place as the president of the souther Christian Leadership Conference. His main point to the clergymen was that the racial injustice going on was long over due. Dr. King felt he could help in the racial injustice in the South, which also landed him in Birmingham Jail.
2. Dr. King seen the morality in the south, he included in his letter that he had an understanding of the law but he did not feel like the racial injustice was right or fair to those faced by segregation.
3. Dr. king used a great deal of emotional appeals in his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" which helped him grasp a common ground of understanding with his audience for the racial problem going on in Birmingham. Also that he wrote this letter from a Jail sail to his fellow clergymen, effected his given audience in a certain way.
While in jail Dr. King wrote an emotionally appealing response to his fellow clergy men. Using his extensive educational and religious background as credibility, he addresses the issues taking place in Birmingham. He persuades his audience logically of why his presence in Birmingham has warrant.
ReplyDelete1. Right from the start Dr. King states his positions in multiple civil rights associations, and in the religious community. His prestige as president of the southern Baptist Organization not only gives him the credibility for his opinion, but with the clergy men that criticized his involvement in Birmingham.
2 Dr. King Also addresses the fact o f the white church's non existent involvement in the Birmingham matters. With immense religious knowledge, Dr. King informs white Christians that standing idly by while people suffer is just as bad as inducing the suffering themselves.
3. With emotional appeals, Dr. King leads readers through a list of injustices, and inconsistencies concerning African Americans in America. Giving very detailed examples of those injustices, Dr. King provides his audience a crystal clear view of the situation in Birmingham.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" to judeo-christian leaders in Birmingham in an effort to relate himself with the clergymen, as well as shed light on current events to explain why his non-violent protests are necessary.
ReplyDelete1. Dr. King refers to the clergymen as "brothers", this is done to relate himself with the clergymen.
2. Dr. King uses his expertise as a civil rights activists to show why direct action is needed to cure the disease of segregation.
3. Dr. King references religious values and why they are important. This again is done to relate to the clergyman, claiming all men come from the same God and share similar beliefs.
In "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. utilizes his experience with the Christian religion, as well as his involvement in the civil rights movement to prove his credibility, clarifying the real meaning of his presence in Birmingham to the eight clergymen.
ReplyDeleteReason 1. Dr. King immediately begins the letter with a demonstration of his credentials by referring to the clergymen as "Fellow Clergymen," and then adding that he is the president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which is affiliated with the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights.
Reason 2. King also uses his experience in the "injustice" of segregation to show why he is a credible source on such a subject.
Reason 3. By combining his experience and knowledge of both the Christian religion and civil rights, Dr. King is able to explain more clearly why his presence in Birmingham is a necessity.
"Letter from a Birmingham Jail" emphasizes Martin Luther King Jr.'s religious credibility as a foundation for his active Civil Rights campaign. King explores the racial injustices that plague Birmingham's black community as a means of procuring the support of his fellow clergymen.
ReplyDelete1. King often compares himself to that of biblical entities, emphasizing that he is a messenger likewise to that of Paul the Apostle - in which King serves as a messenger of "freedom". He takes advantage of his audience's faith and insures them that his plight for Civil Rights is that of a non-violent and holy one to bring all communities together.
2. King appeals to the idea that lawmakers and clergymen who support desegregation laws are unknowingly still ignorant to the cause itself, though unknowingly. Even though they support desegregation, they do not preach with conviction, but rather cling onto the specifics of the written law.
3. King references the police brutality in Birmingham, and questions their motives behind reinforcing these laws. He describes them as doing what's in their own personal interest instead of the interests of the people they are supposed to be protecting. He emphasizes that while the larger community itself may feel safe with the police upholding the written law, the black community is hindered by racial injustices.
In the "Letter from a Birmingham Jail", Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. responds to an article by eight clergymen, in which he explains the racial injustice in Birmingham, and reasons why King's organization is protesting for Civil Rights.
ReplyDeleteReason 1: Dr. King says that the purpose of his direct-action protest is to open the door for negotiation on the Civil Rights.
Reason 2: Dr. King wants to convince his audience to be more involved in the Civil Rights Movement.
Reason 3: Dr. King highlights police actions against nonviolent Negros and crimes against prisoners in the city jail.
Dr. King provides a persuasive argument to his fellow clergy men by utilizing his personal experience as well as knowledge of human rights and the justice system to create a call for action against the inequality happening in Birmingham.
ReplyDeleteReason 1: Dr. King knows first hand what is going on in Birmingham because he, himself, is writing this letter to the clergy men inside the walls of jail.
Reason 2: Dr. King believes that the whole reason that America was created was to allow freedom and equality, not enslave others.
Reason 3: Dr. King poses an excellent argument when he states a fact that the Constitution, the document that the nation is created from, states that all men are created equal. There shouldn't be any kind of slavery or inequality if the Constitution and not to mention the bible states that everyone is equal.