Labels:bulletin board | monitor | reckoner | sky | windowpane OCR: In the spring of 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr was in Birmingham, Alabama to participate in civil rights marches. but he was arrasted and sent to jail. Whila confined to his prison cell, King came across Writtan statemant bv eight Alabama clergvmen -prominent local raligious leaders who denounced King's actions and the actions of his fellow demonstrators. Much of King's rasponse -his now famous Lattar from Birmingham Jail" 15 davoted to critiguing the cleraymen's statoment and attacking racism King argues among othar points, that individuals hava not only : moral right but also rasponsibility to disobay unjust laws One of the real strengths of King's araument his ability to consider his own arguments from his audianca's perspactiva For example, early in his somawhat langthy lattar, King ...
