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One of the most skillfully written compositions was done in a jail cell in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who was heading a national political movement for the recognizable equal treatment of colored people wrote a letter to his fellow clergy men while being imprisoned. In one article, he was able to address not only the clergy, but a wide, diverse audience, send his message across thoroughly, and affect millions of lives because of his purpose and the different personas he assumed. Dr. King's letter was a success because of his ability to incorporate and involve everyone in his writing.
Dr. King was able to reach out to millions upon millions of people with his letter. Regardless of having addressed it to his "Dear fellow clergymen" (King, 173) King was able to bring his writing to the attention of the general white public, the white supremacist, black nationalist, and many others. Dr. King tried to show how everyone, whether you participated for or against the movement, or if you did not participate at all, affected the situation in Birmingham, Alabama. . He wrote in a heart wrenching manner about having to explain to his children why they were not able to go to a newly opened amusement park and why colored people were treated differently and harshly by white people. He wrote with vivid imagery about the tears that welled up in his children's eyes when they asked these poignant questions and about how he fumbled around for answers that would be appropriate for their young impressionable minds.
Dr. King also caught the attention of white political leaders and critics, but also of other black political activists. His open denunciation of the Black Panthers and Malcolm X caught many, as well as me, off-guard. Dr. King was an advocate for peaceful protesting, reasoning, negotiation and of winning the public over while appeasing everyone. Some may have called him a pacifist because while Malcolm X and the Panthers were for...
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