ENG 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Ultimate Tensile Strength, Babyland, The Instructor

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 1100
• Professor: Geraldine Arbach

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Martin luther king, jr. : letter from birmingham jail in response to public statement by. Statement commended the negro community on the calm manner in which the demonstrations had been handled, said they agreed that there was a need for honest and open negotiations of racial issues, and strongly urged the. Negro community to withdraw support from these demonstrations and to present their case in court instead of in the streets. He has come to birmingham because injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Their statement deplores the demonstrations taking place in birmingham but fails to express a similar concern for the conditions that brought about the demonstrations. It is unfortunate that the city"s white power structure left the negro community in birmingham with no alternative to demonstrations. Birmingham is the most thoroughly segregated city in the us and its brutality is widely known. Negroes have experienced grossly unjust treatment in the courts.