Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter To The Clergymen In Birmingham

Martin Luther King was a civil right activist and Christian preacher who expressed the reasons behind the reasons of why african americans were protesting for their civil rights through a letter to the clergymen in Birmingham. King goes on to express his argument by giving an idea on what african americans go through in a society where police brutality and denial of freedom is present in the everyday lives of african americans in Birmingham. He pushes his purpose even further by getting the clergymen to trust his word on what he says is happening to the african american citizens, follow his ideas in the direction he wants them to see is right and to create compassion in them as well. By doing this Martin Luther King is able to create a powerful point of view towards the civil right movement and why is was happening.
King gives an explanation behind the protests that are being carried out to gain civil rights and to end segregation by the african american community, to the clergymen in Birmingham, by bringing up the reasons to why this method of protesting is taken place when he states in his letter, “Non-violent violent action seeks to create such...creative tension that a community that has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue.” This gives the explanation the point king has intended
Using shared values works to his advantage because it shows that they are no different from each other, by doing so he referred to them men who shared the belief of both honesty and genuine goodness by stating in his letter, “ I feel that you are men of genuine good will and your criticisms are sincerely set forth..” This leads the clergymen to feel that them, just like king are set as equals because of the beliefs they both share and leads them to see that african americans are also equals to the whites in the birmingham