Summary Of Martin Luther King's Letter From A Birmingham Jail

Martin Luther King wrote his Letter From a Birmingham Jail not to cause a bigger problem, but to give insight to those unaware of what it was that the civil rights movement was aiming for. He wrote it to make people understand the struggle of a black person in America and to show ordinary Americans that it was not only a civil rights movement, but a human rights movement. He says that the sit-in protests “were in reality standing up for what is best in the American dream and for the most sacred values in our Judaeo Christian heritage”. He says American Dream and Judaeo Christian heritage, both things that most white Americans can relate to. Once you relate your problem to someone else’s problem, your problem becomes their problem. He doesn’t