About MLK
King's date of birth?
January 15th 1929
Important historic figure King mentions
Adolf Hitler
"Birmingham is probably the most thoroughly segregated city in the United States. Its ugly record of police brutality is known in every section of this country...These are the hard, brutal, and unbelievable facts."
Logos
The number of days MLK spent his time in jail and wrote his letters
Eight days
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"Segregation distorts the soul and damages the..."
Personality
"We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."
Pathos
This was the group King was heavily apart of
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Names of three people King uses a Biblical References
-St Thomas Aquinas
-Martin Buber
"Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half-truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and objective appraisal..."
Ethos
Three important themes in "Letters from Birmingham Jail"
Free Response
The date in which the Supreme Court stated that segregation was considered "constitutional"
May 17th 1954
Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust. All segregation statues are unjust because segregation distorts the soul and damages personality"
Logos
Alabama
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"We must come to see the distinguished jurist of yesterday that justice too long delayed is justice denied’ We have waited for more than... for our god-given and constitutional rights."
Three Hundred and Forty Years
Shallow understanding from the people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection".
Pathos