This book is documentation of all of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. works from his philosophy to his novels. One of the works in it describes the Children’s March of 1963 that brought out thousands of youth to protest in the street and free the wrath of Bull Connor. It also describes the bombing of the Sixteen Street Baptist Church, which left four girls dead. It contains one of Dr’ King’s famous works “Letter From the Birmingham Jail”. However, this book informs us that the march of the children proved to be a pivotal point for the movement.
Toulmin Analysis In the “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, King he responds to a letter written by eight, white Alabama Clergymen to the editor of a newspaper in Birmingham. He wants the audience to believe that the clergymen fail to discuss the circumstances that brought about the demonstrations in Birmingham. In September 1962, King had the opportunity to talk with the leaders of Birmingham economic community. The merchants made many promise such as how they would remove the stores’ racial signs. Upon these agreements, Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth, the leader of the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights, (including Martin Luther King) had agreed to delay the peaceful demonstrations.
From the personal story of her early years, the wider context of the civil rights movement before her arrest, and the story of her historic ride on the bus itself. The last few chapters go into the aftermath of her suffering, her experience of the black freedom struggle in Detroit during the 1950’s and 1960’s, and her life during the black power era of the 1970’s and beyond. The center of the book is the boycott and the community’s reaction to an activist’s principled challenge to oppression. Jeanne Theoharis is a professor at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. She teaches political science.
Ellie’s decisive ability and her morals are thrown into chaos when she arrives at the family house and finds her dogs dead. She remains in a leadership position when she finds the eldest pet still alive and tells the others to help it while she runs inside to see what had happened to her parents. As Ellie wrote after the traumatic incident, “I knew that nothing sp awful could have happened to the dogs unless something more awful could have happened to my parents.” Although she says she had lost all rational thought. She still made good decision when the tragic events that had happened were unravelling before her. “They lay beside their little galvanized iron humpies, flies all over them, oblivious to the last warmth of the sun”.
The images of Alabama law enforcement beating the nonviolent protesters were shown all over the country and the world by television networks and newspapers. The visuals of such brutality being carried out by the state of Alabama helped shift the image of the segregationist movement from one of a movement trying to preserve the social order of the South to a system of state-endorsed terrorism against non-whites. [23] The marches also had a powerful effect in Washington. After witnessing TV coverage of "Bloody Sunday," President Lyndon Baines Johnson met with Governor George Wallace in Washington to discuss with him the civil rights situation in his state. He tried to persuade Wallace to stop the state harassment of the protesters.
It would be one of the last speeches he would give as a member of the Nation of Islam. The speech was given to a congregation of African American people desperate for some good news. The March on Washington had taken place weeks earlier and President Kennedy had just been elected. On September 15, 1963 the 16th Baptist Church in Birmingham Alabama had been bombed by members of the KKK killing four young girls. This was a turning point in the civil right movement as it motivated many people to take action (UCLA film and television archive).
don’t know yet 9. Today, we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day because of the accomplishments made by King in his honor to end the legalization of segregation in the United States. One accomplishment by Martin Luther King was organizing desegregation protests in Birmingham, Alabama. Another accomplishment by King was mobilizing sit-ins and marches by thousands of school children. King was eventually arrested by Birmingham police officers along with thousands of children.
In 1960 the students of Duke University was having a sit- in and Mulholland joined them. Mulholland then dropped out of school and went to Washington and bean to work and participated in the local movement by NAG. She believed that whites should help with the movement. Mulholland applied to black schools and was accepted to Tougaloo southern Christian College. Mulholland was participating in a Freedom Ride where she was arrested, she chose to stay in jail until school started to pay off her fines.
King does a great job using pathos to appeal to the eight clergymen’s emotions in order to explain the struggles of the black community. Dr. King uses several examples to explain why change is desperately needed in Birmingham. For example He says “… when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six-year-old daughter why she can’t 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 Fun-town is closed to colored children, and see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky, and see her beginning to distort her personality by developing and unconscious bitterness toward white people” he uses the pain he feels when he tell his child she can’t go to an amusement park because she is black. He felt it was not right to raise an innocent child that bears a deep hate towards one race because of social injustice. He could not stand raising a child in a world so ugly that would judge a person by the color of their
Knowing the time and location this poem was set in is very significant. In 1963 Birmingham, Alabama was known for the awful hatred and violence toward African Americans. At this time, the black community was not safe anywhere, even somewhere as sacred as a church. The mother, in the poem, thought like most anyone else that surely her child would be safe at