Fair or unfair? That is the question.Because opponents of the Civil Rights Movement and desegregation appealed to the fact that segregation was legal by the standards of the Southern states and mun...

Dr. King notes that one of the great obstacles to integration is the apathy or complacency of white "moderates" who supposedly like the idea of civil rights in theory but oppose it by inaction. Tra...

Talk about a cornerstone of a philosophy. Nonviolence is the place where Dr. King's spirituality and political ideas meet in a practical strategy of social change. The bus lines aren't desegregatin...

This motif goes to the essence of Dr. King's understanding of Christianity. Whether he was talking about Black and white children holding hands, or speaking out against the war in Vietnam, Dr. King...

This guy knew how to write a speech.Dr. King often used repetition and parallel construction to great emotional effect when he spoke. There isn't quite as much of that in "Letter From Birmingham Ja...

MLK was a master of metaphor. He didn't give a sermon or a speech without at least a few of 'em sprinkled in, especially when he was driving toward a concluding crescendo. In "Letter from Birmingha...