"From Letter from Birmingham City Jail"

This week in class we read a famous speech written by Martin Luther King Jr. He wrote this speech on a newspaper while in his jail cell about civil rights and freedom. It was written in Birmingham Jail in April 16, 1963, in a calm, encouraging, and emotional tone. The purpose of his speech was to inform, explain, and persuade the racists that the African-Americans will indeed get the freedom they have been fighting for for centuries. Though he was in jail while writing it, he had always hoped that his speech would one day somehow be published, and it was. I Find Martin Luther King Jr. a very inspirational man. It is truly remarkable that he had all that courage to go against a law who is against him and his people in order to stand up for what he believes is right.