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A 3 page essay that compares and contrasts Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail and Toni Bambara's "The Lesson." The writer argues that they both address issue of equality. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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conditioned to accept their status in US society and part of the mission of this era was to awaken both black and white citizens to an alternative viewpoint in which
all citizens were equal. Toni Cade Bambara in her short story, "The Lesson," and Martin Luther King, Jr., in his "Letter from Birmingham Jail," both address this issue but in
very different formats. Dr. Kings Letter was written after he was incarcerated in Birmingham for leading a protest in that city against unfair and racist practices. At that time,
white ministers, rather than support Kings position, praised the Birmingham police for maintaining "order" and "preventing violence" Patterson 106). Kings Letter is a rebuttal to the criticism that his actions
have garners. To those who criticized the Civil Rights activists for breaking laws, King points out that he had a moral obligation that superceded legal restrictions. Quoting St. Augustine, he
states that "an unjust law is no law at all." At every turn, King successfully refutes the numerous fallacies in the logic of those who support the 1960s status quo.
For example, one of the criticism leveled again him was that, in promoting demonstrations, he incited action that led to violence. In rebuttal, King makes the brilliant analogy that this
is similar to arguing that a man who leaves his home with money in his possession incites robbery. As this suggests, King successfully, logically and eloquently refutes the rationales that
upheld a culture of racism. Likewise, Bambara centers her short story around the idea of changing preconceptions. In this case, the preconceptions belong to black children. Muther points out that
a prevalent theme in Bambaras writing is that children are frequently acutely sensitive to the adult world (447). This is quite evident in the manner that Sylvia, a young
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