Living life of darkness for centuries, waiting to be treated humanly for ages, Black people silently endured the poverty and humiliation inflicted on them by White people. Blacks
never raised their voice against anything. They constantly lived in fear and resentment. They found themselves losing their mothers, fathers, sisters, and brothers eventually losing their identity.
With time things began to get worse. They were not considered citizens nor could they vote to practice constitutional rights for more than 340 years. Finally, they chose to get out of their homes to voice against the brutality. They decided to speak up so that their future generations did not have to live through same unreasonable hardships. Martin Luther King Jr. led the nonviolent campaign with sit ins and marches so that the issue could no longer be ignored by the government.
With the rise in insurgency, eight Alabama clergymen wrote a famous statement to the King in Birmingham Jail, criticizing his mass movement. They stood against the revolution trying to discourage King and his supporters by defining their demonstration as violence against religion, law, and politics.
King wrote back to the Clergymen a letter famously known as “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” More than a letter, it was a statement firmly against the government and the people who tried to supress change. King, in his letter, defined freedom as the most divine power which must be handed to the people. The Blacks has waited too long for integration , and they could not wait any longer .
King further believed that the disturbances created by the revolution were the result of the long lost supressed voices, and it was nothing in compared to the hardship they had suffered all their lives. “ A Call for Unity” and “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” are the proof of the presence of racial discrimination during that period of history and both of them justify the mass revolution that changed the lives of millions of people.
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