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In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self purification; and direct action. We have gone through all these . Martin Luther King, Jr. “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” April 16, While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities unwise . Letter from Birmingham Jail carries an indictment shockingly relevant to our nation 50 years later, and must be read. But it must also be read and studied anew within the context and spirit of .Birmingham is probably the most thoroughly segregated city in the United States. Its ugly record of police brutality is known in every section of the country. Its unjust treatment of Negroes in the courts is a notorious reality. There have been more unsolved bombings of Negro homes and churches in Birmingham than in any city in this nation. In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self purification; and direct action. We have gone through all these steps in Birmingham. There can be no gainsaying the fact that racial injustice engulfs this community. In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: (1) Collection of the facts to determine whether injustices are alive; (2) Negotiation; (3) Self-purification; and (4) Direct action. We have gone through all of these steps in Birmingham. There can be no gainsaying of the fact that racial injustice engulfs this community.Letter from Birmingham Jail Public Domain Martin Luther King, Jr. Birmingham City Jail April 16, My dear Fellow Clergymen While confined here in the Birmingham City Jail, I came across your recent statement calling our present activities unwise and untimely. Seldom, if ever, do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas. If I. Download the PDF of King's famous letter, written in response to white religious leaders who criticized his civil-rights activism in Birmingham, Alabama. The letter argues for the moral and legal justification of civil disobedience against segregation and injustice. Read the full text of King's letter from the Birmingham jail, where he defended his nonviolent campaign against segregation and criticized the white religious leaders who opposed him. The letter is a classic document of the civil rights movement and a masterpiece of rhetoric.
