Letter from Birmingham Jail

How does King start out the letter?

• Dear Sir or Madam

• Hello Friends!

• My Dear Fellow Clergymen

• To Whom It May Concern:

Why is Martin Luther King Jr. in Birmingham?

• He wanted to visit the city.

• Injustice is there.

• He feels like being there.

• He was told to go there.

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CCSS.RI.5.8

CCSS.RI.2.9

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.1.5

Evoking emotion, especially pity or sadness, in the audience or reader

• pathos

• ethos

• allusion

• point of view

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

To whom is the Letter from Birmingham Jail addressed?

• ministers who criticized King's efforts
• whites who arrested King for no reason
• his coworkers in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
• his wife and his lawyer

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CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RI.5.8

CCSS.RI.4.8

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RL.4.5

Why was King in Birmingham?

• he was invited to help fight the segregation there

• he lived there

• he gave a speech there but drove over the speed limit on his way out of town

• he picked Birmingham as the next place to hold a non-violent protest

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CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RI.2.9

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

According to King, history shows that...

• people don't like to give up their power.
• people easily listen to others and change their behavior.
• social change happens quickly, not over time.
• equality can never happen.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"Justice too long delayed is justice _________"

• denied.

• waiting to happen.

• soon.

• never.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What counterargument does Dr. King present to the advice to wait?

• Democratically elected officials would not require African Americans to wait.

• Socrates would not have waited under the same circumstances.

• African Americans already have waited for more than 340 years.

• The 1954 Supreme Court decision has made it impossible to wait.

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CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RI.K.8

CCSS.RI.2.8

Who was the Negro's "great stumbling block," according to MLK Jr.?

• Birmingham Police Department

• Ku Klux Klan

• White Citizen's Council

• White Moderate

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice...

• ...in some places."

• ...in the south."

• ...everywhere."

• end of sentence.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3