From db45d6d45c2e6a7aacac649ff7b69a7cde5e7d11 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lukas Werner Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2022 13:10:37 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] add birmingham jail letter analysis --- apgov/LetterFromABriminghamJail.md | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) create mode 100644 apgov/LetterFromABriminghamJail.md diff --git a/apgov/LetterFromABriminghamJail.md b/apgov/LetterFromABriminghamJail.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9aac30d --- /dev/null +++ b/apgov/LetterFromABriminghamJail.md @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +| how might social movements affect... | examples | +| ---| --- | +| public opinion | write, assemble, petition, put on a show. BLM, Civil Rights Movement, Women's suffrage | +| legislative policy | public opinion, Climate change /EPA forming, | +| supreme court | strategically putting cases infront of the court, also manipulating the people who are on the court, e.g. ruth bater ginsburg (suffrage case) Frontiero v. Richardson. | + +### Describe Dr. King's purpose in writing this paragraph. What is he attempting to explain to his audience? + +He is stating that the normal attempts at solving an this issue is going nowhere because the people are so back down in their world. This is explainging that the action he needs to take because they are not taking the action he wants. + +### What was the direct action seeking to the get the merchants to do? + +They asked the merchants to stop with their discriminatory signs and however that promise they recived was not fulfilled. The response was preforming in direct action where he would protest in large numbers. + +### Thinking back to Dr. King's intended audience and purpose, why is he describing these delays in the direct action? What is he trying to communicate to his audience? + +He added these delays in order to get better at doing the non-violence part of direct action protesting. Furthermore the direct action was further postponed in order to avoid the mixing of issues between this and other activities