http://www.pearsoncustom.com/tx/hcc_hist1302 read "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King from the e-reader Summarize the reading and respond to it. Stating authors argument and comment...

The letter addressed to fellow white clergymen display’s Luther Martin King’s non-violent civil disobedience and brings his goals and principles of his efforts to light.
His present activities were questioned as being “unwise and untimely”.
To the outlook of being “outsiders coming in” MLK responded with the reasoning why he was at the Birmingham prison, foremost being “injustice”. He had served as the president of Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), with its headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, and the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights was one of the affiliate organizations from total of 85.
Comparing himself with the eighth-century prophets as Apostle Paul who carried out the gospel of Jesus Christ to entire Graeco Roman world, he too was here to carry out the gospel of freedom.
He speaks of the four phases involved in the nonviolent campaign which include (1) collection of facts to determine whether injustices exist (2) negotiation (3) self-purification (4) direct action
Expanding on Birmingham he said it was the most segregated city in the US known for police brutality and injustice treatments of courts towards Negroes. The city political leaders refused to negotiate with the Negro leaders. The previous September he had engaged in negotiations with merchants to do away from their stores the degrading racial signs. He realized that the assurances by Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights were fruitless.
This brought them to the fourth step of the direct action of presenting their case before local and national bodies, thus they decided to go through self-purification and non-violence workshops. This meant getting ready for blows without retaliating, and ordeals of jail.
Strategically they planned to hold their direct-action program around Easter season, the largest shopping...