Martin Luther King was a civil rights leader and preacher that had a successful bus boycott and was then invited to come to Birmingham to help nonviolent protesters. He sought to find justice by helping the whites understand the everyday life of an African American. In the “Letter from Birmingham Jail” that King wrote after being arrested, he argues that since the white moderates have ignored the issue of discrimination, the African Americans have decided to take direct action; they will no longer wait for justice and an end to segregation and hope that having similar religious values will help the white community come to their senses. This movement was done to show the white community that many African Americans were willing to make an effort to improve the world. Without the efforts that were made to notice the issue in the first place, the African American community and other minorities would have continued to suffer
Martin Luther King was a civil rights leader and preacher that had a successful bus boycott and was then invited to come to Birmingham to help nonviolent protesters. He sought to find justice by helping the whites understand the everyday life of an African American. In the “Letter from Birmingham Jail” that King wrote after being arrested, he argues that since the white moderates have ignored the issue of discrimination, the African Americans have decided to take direct action; they will no longer wait for justice and an end to segregation and hope that having similar religious values will help the white community come to their senses. This movement was done to show the white community that many African Americans were willing to make an effort to improve the world. Without the efforts that were made to notice the issue in the first place, the African American community and other minorities would have continued to suffer