Martin Luther King Jr. Letter (Essay Sample)

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Letter from a Birmingham jail
This letter was written by Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. from inside a Birmingham prison where he was being held. He was responding to criticism shown by eight well known white clergy men. The clergy men criticized him for his actions which had led to his arrest and imprisonment. He had participated in a civil rights movement action which highlighted the treatment the blacks received from the white majority both in Birmingham and the rest of the United States.
In the letter, King presents a well written argument which expresses his feelings towards the subhuman treatments accorded to the black population particularly in Birmingham where it was very prevalent. The then prevailing events in the United States were unfortunate and tragic. It was a time when segregation was openly promoted particularly through the Jim Crow Laws. These laws violated the important American spirit of equality for all men each being endowed with certain unalienable right.
The letter expresses the predicament of a man who has tried every amicable means to fight for equality to all but fail miserably. He even goes to an extent of getting into an agreement with the white merchants to have all the humiliating racial sighs removed. He instead ends up being a victim of a broken promise as little or nothing is done to effect the agreement.
At that point, it would not have been irrationa...