Letter from a Birmingham Jail - Transcendental Thought
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Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr
Lesson Plans by Kristy Littlehale
"Letter from a Birmingham Jail" challenged the complacent attitudes of the local clergymen during the Civil Right’s movement, as Martin Luther King, Jr. sat in a jail cell for his peaceful protests against injustice. Teach your students all about this important letter with Storyboard That!
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Storyboard Description
Letter from a Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr. | Transcendentalism
Storyboard Text
- NONCONFORMITY
- Whites Only
- Birmingham General Store
- Just be patient! Wait! It'll happen eventually....
- Colored Only
- INTUITION
- Wait... the Holocaust was LEGAL?!
- SELF-RELIANCE
- We are equal!
- "So we had no alternative except that of preparing for direct action..."
- You promised change! We won't wait any longer!
- "The answer is found in the fact that there are two types of laws: there are just laws, and there are unjust laws... We can never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was 'legal'..."
- "We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands."
- TRANSCENDENTALIST THOUGHT
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