Birmingham Jail Situation Analysis

The political situation in Birmingham, Alabama was not fair to the black community. At the time, Martin Luther King Jr was the president of the Southern Leadership Conference which had eighty five affiliate organizations across the South and Alabama Christian Movement for Human Right was part of the organization. King was invited by the organization to Alabama for a nonviolent direct-action to raise a voice for the black people in Birmingham. King was invited so that the situation of segregation between the whites and blacks in Birmingham can be corrected; instead of the voice to be heard, the clergymen took it against Martin Luther King Jr and criticized him. This lead him to jail in Birmingham, while King was in jail he had to confront the defect criticism made to him by the eight clergymen who were leaders of religious organization. They are people who claimed to be educated because they went to college or seminaries. Even …show more content…
The clergymen themselves were outsiders from Europe, so therefore they shouldn’t decide who comes in and out of Birmingham. Furthermore, the clergymen considered King has an outsider based on the pigment of his skin, which is not what America was built on. America was built on Christian values, which stresses on love, equity and justice. The word “outsider” was a wrong word to use for King's visit to Birmingham. King was born and raised in Atlanta, GA which is part of the United States, so he had every right to visit Birmingham. The accusation that King crossed the boundary was absurd and ridiculous because they didn't know the history of Birmingham and America as a whole. Native Americans lived in Birmingham before the clergymen. Their criticism was based on a myth, hatred and lack of knowledge which took over their way of thinking and making rational