Letters+from+Birmingham+Jail


 * "Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr.**

Dr. King was imprisoned after protesting segregation in Birmingham, Alabama. He wrote a letter in response to another clergyman's letter in which he defends Rosa Park's decision to not sit in the back of the bus, and goes on to describe the reason he and other members of his group are there for peaceful protest. he discusses just and unjust laws, religious freedoms, racisism, and segregation.

short stories and poems