Martin Luther King Jr. was a black revolution leader who fought for the equal rights of blacks in USA.

A priest by profession.

A philosopher and hero of the blacks.

Headed the Southern Christian Leadership and held peaceful protests.

He was arrested for a similar protest in Birmingham.

White priests sent him a letter in jail, asking him to end the demonstration and approach the court with his problem.

He wrote this in reply to their letter on 1st April 1963.

He followed Jesus' doctrine of peace and believed that with peaceful protests the cruel and unjust can be made to realize their mistake.

The letter from the white priests of Alabama was published in the newspaper Post Herald.

In the letter the clergymen said

Luther was an outsider he should stop demonstrating and negotiate with the government.

his protests were ill timed or untimely the protestors broke the law...
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