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Letter From A Birmingham Jail - College Papers

Letter From A Birmingham Jail

We will soon wear you down by our capacity to suffer, and in winning our freedom we will so appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win you in the process.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
While there have been many persons of importance in the struggle for Civil Rights for black Americans, it would be hard to argue that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had the greatest impact in both the white and black community. It was Dr. King's broad vocabulary, oratory skills, and deep education that set him apart from other black preachers in the church. King had direction, a purpose, and would not sway from his ideology due to pressures associated within the church from Elders and Aldermen. After ...

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as I considered the source, pissed me off. Second, In Kings letter he states: Every day I meet young people whose disappointment with the church has turned to outright disgust.
I feel that King, in a way, saw the future. The church has not played the role that it should play in the lives of American citizens. Not then. Not now. While the world changes the leaders of all Christian religions must, without question, adapt to this change in order to bring in and retain youth in the church environment. These members of the clergy were wrong in supporting the status quo attitude concerning the black population in Birmingham.
King was very young when he entered his collage years, being granted admission to Morehouse Collage at the age of fifteen. It was here that he developed his advanced vocabulary and began to polish his oratory skills. This was his way of proving himself in a class of older students and would serve him well over the course of his life. He could articulate with the ...

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Added: 7/10/2006 03:43:53 PM
Category: World History
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