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Apr 17, 2016 · An Atlantic reader offers context for those eight men: The lives of the eight clergymen were deeply influenced by the times and the Letter itself. (Though none of those eight ever...
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Apr 4, 2018 · A statement published in The Birmingham News, written by eight moderate white clergymen, criticized the march and other demonstrations. This prompted King to write a lengthy response, begun in...
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While in jail, King was given a copy of “A Call for Unity,” an open letter written by eight moderate, white Alabama clergymen criticizing the demonstrations initiated by “outsiders” and urging...
The Eight White Clergymen who wrote “A Call for Unity,” an open letter that criticized the Birmingham protests, are the implied readers of King ’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”. King refers to them as “My Dear Fellow Clergymen,” and later on as “my Christian and Jewish brothers.”.
It's been five decades since Martin Luther King Jr., began writing his famous "Letter From Birmingham Jail," a response to eight white Alabama clergymen who criticized King and worried the...
Jul 14, 2013 · Although initially addressed to eight “liberal” Alabama clergymen, the letter gained a wider audience once published in the June editions of Christian Century magazine and Atlantic Monthly. In his letter, Dr. King insisted on the need for immediate racial change and the absolute necessity of protest until change occurred.
He then expresses a desire to meet with the eight white clergymen who have criticized the protests—not as an African American or a protester, however, but as a fellow clergyman. He completes his letter “yours in the cause of Peace and Brotherhood.”
