Letter from Birmingham Jail Themes
Courage
Early on in the Civil Rights Movement, Dr. King's house was bombed.Yep. His house. Was bombed. Dr. King used the opportunity to double down on his philosophy of non-violence. In "Letter from Birmin...
Perseverance
One of the first demonstrations of the Civil Rights Movement was the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which began as a one-day event and ballooned into a 381-day campaign. African Americans organized an epi...
Religion
Dr. King was religious, in case you couldn't tell. He was a preacher, first and foremost, and his powerful sermons were one of the biggest driving forces of the Civil Rights Movement as a whole, mo...
Injustice
We know, we know—this one's kind of a given. The whole reason "Letter from Birmingham Jail" was written in the first place is because there was injustice in the world. Defeating that injustice wa...