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A 3 page paper which examines Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail. No additional sources cited.
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and equality in the nation as it involves the African American people. It is a letter that was intended for various ministers or preachers, and intended as a statement and
plea to these religious leaders, urging them to think differently and behave differently in light of the needs of the African American people at a powerful crossroads in history. The
following essay examines Kings focus on children and equality in the letter. Letter from a Birmingham Jail While Kings letter focuses on his non-violent, yet determined, approach to
fighting against injustice as it relates to religion and civil rights, he also introduces other elements or topics in his letter which further bring home his point. And, in putting
aside religion and politics this writer/researcher was made to wonder, what is it like for children who are culturally oppressed and abused? They do not have the power to do
anything yet are victims. What is their experience in all this? King presents such oppressed children in a very emotional and thus intelligently gripping manner. He offers personal relationships
between what he is doing and what needs to be done when he states how "you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain
to your six year old daughter why she cant go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her eyes
when she is told that Funtown is closed to colored children, and see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky" (King, 1983). He indicates how
the society, the one that is not fighting back, urges such a child to become angry and racist as one can "see her beginning to distort her personality by developing
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