![]() ![]() Like the Declaration of Independence, his letter also enumerated the many injustices to which black men and women had been subjected. King appealed to a higher, transcendent law that he claimed the white ministers had failed to follow. In his response, King “drew upon the Scripture (particularly the prophets), the black intellectual tradition, the larger Western Christian tradition, and the American political tradition,” to craft “one of the greatest works of 20th-century American political rhetoric,” according to Mullin, newly elected vice president and chief of staff at the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention (See page 20). ![]() was arrested in April, 1963, he began to write his “Letter From a Birmingham Jail,” which continues to challenge readers even 60 years later. ![]()
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