What You'll Learn:
A group of clerics from Alabama wrote a piece criticizing the civil disobedience of King and others. This essay-letter was King’s response, written in the margins of newspapers as he sat in his jail cell.
Key Insights:
- A successful nonviolent movement will contain four steps.
- Tension is not categorically evil.
- The word “wait” comes easily to those who have never felt the pain of segregation.
- It is just to obey just laws, and it is just to disobey unjust laws.
- White moderates harm the cause of black freedom more than the KKK.
- “Extremism” both is and isn’t a fair characterization of nonviolent protest.
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