Between the years of 1950 and 1960, there was a discrimination upon race amidst White and African American people. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. decided to begin a protest against it in which he believed the treatment was unfair and "injustice" however, he went to jail for doing so and the Alabama Clergymen wrote him a letter to call it off, Dr. King responded. In the response letter by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the iconic civil rights leader seeks to utilize emotional, logical, as well as ethical
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Imagine living in a world defined by race, or the color of your skin, This dystopian reality was America in 1963, In 1963 Martin Luther King was put in jail for protesting the mistreatment of african americans in Birmingham, Alabama. During his time in jail he wrote a letter to some Clergymen. In this letter he shows the injustice that was thriving in America. The unfair segregation and why they should espouse their rights. In 1963 Martin Luther King was held captive in the Birmingham city jail
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Logos in “Letter from Birmingham Jail” In his “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. states his argument against racial injustices and responds to accusations made by eight white clergy men against him and his fellow Negroes that their non-violent direct action protest was “unwise and untimely” (739). One of the ways that Dr. King responds is with the use of the rhetorical appeal, logos. He presents logical reasoning along with citing specific examples, facts, and evidence
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injustice occurring in the South. His intentions for writing were clearly stated through his ability to establish himself as a legitimate authority in the eyes of his audience, justify his cause, and argue the necessity of immediate action. In the “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s use of the rhetorical appeal of ethos provides him with sufficient credibility on the subject of racial discrimination, thus supplying himself with the ability to effectively convey his motives for civil
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In “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, Martin Luther King Jr. uses pathos, appealing to the audience’s emotions, in order to create an overwhelming feeling of understanding within the clergymen that he is responding to. Thus, this creates support for his argument that in a peaceful manner, it is the people’s moral responsibility to discontinue laws that are unjust and limiting to the individual. Throughout the letter, King’s goal is to create an uproar among the African American people in order for them
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read the letter written by the eight local Clergymen, he then wrote his famous “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, in order to defend his action nonviolent actions. King uses many varieties of rhetoric strategies to exemplify his argument. He uses three Aristolean means of persuasion Ethos, Pathos, and Logos to establish his argument on the nonviolent protest movement. In Martin Luther King Jr.’s letter, written from the Birmingham Jail, he uses ethos to establish the credibility on the subject of racial
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reason obscure. While he was holding up in prison, eight caucasian priests of Alabama issued a letter to African-Americans and asked them to quit dissenting in the boulevards. King was exasperated by this letter, and reacted by composing "A Letter From a Birmingham Jail" asserting that African-Americans will never get the rights they merit in the event that they quit dissenting. King’s first rhetorical strategy he used was the use of loaded language. King used loaded language to assist in the understanding
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As Martin Luther King said “The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people”. King teaches, spreads that it is just as horrible to witness oppression and let it continue uncontested. Cesar Chavez expands on this idea in an article he wrote that argues how non-violence resistance to oppression is more powerful than violence. In his argument he uses many convincing rhetorical devices to develop his argument such as ethos and rhetorical
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Dr. King wrote with the literary device ethos through out the opening of his letter. The phrase, "I think I should give the reason for my being in Birmingham" increase the trust he's building. This phrase causes the reader to listen to his reason and they'll know he's open about why he's imprisoned. Dr. King's letter reveals the " eighty-five affiliate organizations" he runs. he is a very busy person and he was traveling to help the Human Right act that one branch was hosting. The third paragraph
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The core of MLK's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" is explaining his actions in Birmingham and the need for nonviolent protests. He takes the need for nonviolent protests one step further by stating it is their moral task to break unjust laws. MLK explains the process they have gone through leading up to the sit-ins and boycotts such as meeting with leaders of the economic community in which merchants promised to remove the racial signs from their stores (3). These promises never came through after
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