<Tab/>Martin Luther King Jr. wrote "Letter from Birmingham City Jail" while he was incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama. The reason for King being in jail was due to him breaking the law of "parading without a permit" (844). When he wrote this letter, "Birmingham was one of the most rigidly segregated cities in the South, although African Americans made up 40 percent of the population" (Garrow 1). Most laws are put in order to …showed first 75 words of 1091 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1091 total…freedom, and didn't allow the segregated to function in everyday life. That is why the segregated should have been obligated to disobey these laws. Works Cited King, Martin Luther. "Letter from Birmingham City Jail." 1963. Literature and Ourselves. Eds. Gloria Henderson, Bill Day, and Sandra Waller. 4th ed. New York: Logman, 2003. 839-58. Munroe, Maurice E.R. "Un-American Tail: Of Segregation And." Albany Law Review. 64.1 (2000): "Racial Segregation." Encyclopedia Britannica. 28 April 2004. http://www.britannica.com/blackhistory/micro/491/36.html.