Now that you have read Martin Luther King Jr’s Letter from Birmingham Jail, give me your thoughts about
MLK himself, his work, or the state of the civil rights movement today, as you see it.
OR
In his Letter from Birmingham Jail in 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote about the white moderates who sided
with him on the issue of civil rights but who were reluctant to act, who told him to have patience and wait:
"Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from
people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.” What do you think
about
Alternate topic:
In his essay MLK comments to the effect that ‘nobody should be made to feel like ‘an outsider in his own
country,’ Have you ever been in a situation where you were made to feel like an outsider?
- Describe the situation
- Report how you felt about it
- How did you deal with the situation?
- Reflect on what you learned from this experience.