We have some eighty-five affiliated organizations across the South, and one of them is the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights. Frequently we share staff, educational and financial resources with our affiliates. Several months ago the affiliate here in Birmingham asked us to be on call to engage in a nonviolent direct-action program if such were deemed necessary. We readily consented, and when the hour came we lived up to our promise. So I, along with several members of my staff, am here because I was invited here I am here because I have organizational ties here (King 464). King describes his letter by arguing that the people, who came from another country to live in the US, were also Americans. He addresses the influenced people in Birmingham that the minority can share the affiliates with the majority. He is a leader and wants to respond to the majority in Birmingham in order to require the equality to the minority. The gentle response from King persuades the …show more content…
We have gone through all of these steps in Birmingham. There can be no gainsaying the fact that racial injustice engulfs this community. Birmingham is probably the most thoroughly segregated city in the United States. Its ugly record of brutality is widely known. [African Americans] have experienced grossly unjust treatment in the courts. There have been more unsolved bombings of [African Americans] homes and churches in Birmingham than in any other city in the nation. These are the hard, brutal facts of the case. On the basis of these conditions, [African Americans] leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the latter consistently refused to engage in good-faith negotiation (King 465). King lists his nonviolent campaign by expressing the step to act from the first step to the final step. King appeals to his reasons to the majority that they will create nonviolent situations for reacting to the inequality. He offers his action plans to the majority in order to warn the majority that they would not accept any kinds of injustice. The King’s nonviolent campaign worries the majority how effective his plans would