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Letter from Birmingham City Jail

by Martin Luther King Jr.

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Letter from Birmingham City Jail

In paragraph 8 of his "Letter from Birmingham City Jail," Dr. King refers to "tension" as a necessary and nonviolent force to advance civil rights. He acknowledges the tension created by protests,...

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Letter from Birmingham City Jail

In "Letter from Birmingham Jail," Martin Luther King Jr. uses some dying metaphors, pretentious diction, and meaningless words. Dying metaphors like "open the door to negotiation" and "the abyss of...

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Letter from Birmingham City Jail

This letter, written by Martin Luther King Jr. during a sentence he was serving in Birmingham Jail, Alabama, was a response to a public statement released by eight white Southern religious leaders....

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