Martin Luther King Jr Letter From Birmingham Jail

Martin Luther King, Jr is a great black man who accomplished many things for the Negros. Martin Luther King, Jr is a pastor and head leader of the Christian church. At his time there was many racism going on against the Negros. Blacks would suffer from violence and discrimination from the whites. Colored people did not have the same rights as the American whites. For years, the discrimination and racism was going on. But a firm believer of freedom, Pastor Jr was determined to fight for equal rights for all the Blacks and put a stop to the discrimination. On the Letter from Birmingham Jail written by Martin Luther King, Jr, He creates an emotion of appeals in logos, ethos, and pathos. For example Pastor, Jr said, “when you suddenly find your
Pastor uses Inductive reasoning by providing examples that discrimination is affecting Negro’s lives. For example, Pastor states, “When you are harried by day and hunted by night by the fact that you are a Negro, living constantly at tiptoe stance, never knowing what to expect next, and plagued with inner fear and outer resentment; when you are forever fighting a degenerating sense of “nobodyness” then you will understand why we find it difficult” (King). And so continuing, “Throughout the state of Alabama all types of convincing methods are used to prevent Negros from becoming registered voters, and there are some counties without a single Negro registered to vote, and despite the fact that the Negros constitute a majority of the population” (King). Pastor uses deductive reasoning in the beginning of his letter with the purpose to negotiate for the civil rights for all blacks, if not they are willing to stand up for their civil rights. According to Luther, he came across with some of the leaders of the economic community. While negotiating, Pastor argues “These leaders promised to remove some of the humiliating racial signs from the stores and promised to call a moratorium on any type of demonstrations”