Analysis Of Letter From Birmingham Jail By Martin Luther King Jr.

“Why We Can’t Wait” by Martin Luther King, Jr. explains the vital Birmingham campaign and features the inconceivable Letter from Birmingham Jail. Despite the fact of always positive in tone, it deals with the absoluteness of a campaign that is now viewed as pivotal to the success of the American Civil Rights Movement but was anything but assured in its own time. That King acknowledges this reality while placing it in a constructive context all the while advancing his affirmative, forward-looking message is a confirmation to his vision and incredibly magnanimous perseverance. On April 16, 1963, as the violent events of the Birmingham movement unraveled in the city, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., composed a letter from his prison cell in return to local clerical leaders’ criticism of the campaign. The resulting piece of phenomenal protest writing, “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” was extensively dispersed and presented in

MLK, Jr. was an amazing man who was in love with God and who had a heart for people. He had an amazing understanding of what Jesus Christ would do and, I believe, was a great example of what a Christian should be. As I re-read "Letters From a Birmingham Jail", I was reminded how loving and forgiving of a man he was, even to the people who despised him the most. He had a vision of a world where everyone was treated equally, no matter what the color of their skin, and nonviolence was how he was going to reach that goal. The last words of the book, "Nonviolence, the answer to the Negroes' need, may become the answer to the most desperate need of all humanity.", made me realize just how big his vision was. In the second chapter, he refers to nonviolence as "The Sword that Heals". I think this is a great allusion because their weapon was the nonviolent actions, but instead of being used to wound, it was used to heal years of segregation and the awful things that took place in the South against black