Background Info
Martin Luther King Jr. was the leader of this movement.
What is the Civil Rights Movement.
Restricted; keep someone or something within certain limits
What is confined?
The use of credibility in an argument or speech.
What is Ethos?
MLK represents this organization.
What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?
MLK compares just and unjust law using this historical information.
What is Adolf Hitler's actions in Germany being considered "just" or "legal", while Hungary and the Freedom Fighters' actions were considered "unjust" and "illegal" for aiding the Jewish people during the Holocaust?
The state where Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his letter.
What is Alabama?
Participate or become involved in.
What is engaged?
Invoking emotions in an argument or speech?
What is Pathos?
A code that is out of harmony with the moral law. A code that a numerical or power majority group compels a minority group to obey but does not make binding on itself.
What is an unjust law?
Meaning of this quote: "Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself, and that is what has happened to the American Negro."
Eventually, those who are oppressed will not stay in that same position forever. It will eventually manifest no matter what and the oppressed will fight for their freedom like in this current scenario.
MLK was protesting against this.
Analyzing the similarity between two or more things.
What is compare?
The use of logic in an argument or speech.
What is Logos?
A man made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. A code that a majority compels a minority to follow and that it is willing to follow itself.
Central idea of Chunk 3
What is to validate the reason why MLK and his organizations are protesting and describe the instances where extreme actions were deemed necessary in order to achieve results?
Wrote the article who criticized MLK's action to protest.
Who are Clergymen? (Answer could also be Eight White Clergymen)
Principle concerning the differences between right and wrong.
What is morality?
"Is not segregation an existential expression of man's tragic separation, his awful estrangement, his terrible sinfulness?" is an example of this rhetorical device.
What is a Rhetorical Question?
The central idea of Chunk 2 of Letter from Birmingham Jail.
What is to define the differences between just and unjust laws?
The initial purpose as to why the newspaper was written. P13: "Perhaps the South, the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists." How does the last line correlate to the initial purpose?
White clergymen wrote about civil rights being gained through the court system instead of protest. MLK's quote is in response to their initial claim that instead of docile actions, extreme measures should be taken in order to fight for these rights.
The amount of days of protesting before MLK got arrested.
What is Nine?
Lack of fairness.
What is injustice?
"I have the honor of serving as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization operating in every southern state, with headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia." is an example of this rhetorical appeal. If answered correctly, explain why.
What is Ethos? If answered correctly, explain why.
Biblical figure and story alluded and compared to in Chunk 1.
Who is St.Paul? What is the spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ and spreading the message of freedom?
"Was not Jesus an extremist for love: "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you." Was not Amos an extremist for justice: "Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever flowing stream." Was not Paul an extremist for the Christian gospel: "I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus." Was not Martin Luther an extremist: "Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise, so help me God." is an example of this rhetorical device. If answered correctly, what is it used for in this example?
What is repetition? Answer will vary.