Letter From Birmingham Jail Martin Luther King Jr., while serving as the president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, went to Birmingham to undertake in a nonviolent organization against racial discrimination. While organizing the group with a few of his co-workers they are thrown in jail. Birmingham is one of the leading cities for racial discrimination. Martin Luther states that he would like to send the gospel of freedom further than his home town. He …showed first 75 words of 377 total…

…showed last 75 words of 377 total…an extremist such as Jesus, Amos, Paul, Martin Luther, John Bunyan, Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson. Dr. King goes into how the officers of the law even degrade blacks. They unleash their dogs upon helpless black citizens and attack young men for no reason other than just being black. Dr. King’s dream is that one day blacks and white will be able to live in a world together and see each other as equal.