Letter from a Birmingham Jail - Themes
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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 | Civil Rights Movement | MLK Jr.
Storyboard Text
- Slide: 1
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- Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere!
- "I am in Birmingham because injustice is here...I am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my home town."
- Slide: 2
- Why can't you say, "Follow this decree because integration is morally right and the Negro is your brother?"
- "Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust."
- Slide: 3
- We urge the public to continue to show restraintshould the demonstrations continue!
- "You deplore the demonstrations taking place in Birmingham. But your statement, I'm sorry to say, fails to express a similar concern for the conditions that brought about the demonstrations."
- Slide: 4
- These are social issues, with which the gospel has no real concern.
- "In the midst of blatant injustices inflicted upon the Negro, I have watched while white churchmen stand on the sideline and mouth pious irrelevancies and sanctimonious trivialities. "
- Slide: 5
- Dave's Cafe
- Hey! Y'all are blocking my customers and messin' with my business!
- WHITES ONLY
- WHITES ONLY
- DOWN WITH JIM CROW!!!
- Equal Rights for All!
- "This is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue."
- Slide: 6
- TEA
- TEA
- HEY! GET OFF THAT SHIP RIGHT NOW, IN THE NAME OF THE KING!!!
- Breakfast Blend
- EARL GREY
- "In our own nation, the Boston Tea Party represented a massive act of civil disobedience."
- Slide: 7
- This nation CANNOT survive half slave and half free!!!
- "...And now this approach is being termed extremist. Was not... Abraham Lincoln [an extremist]: 'This nation cannot survive half slave and half free'?"
- Slide: 8
- Equal Rights for All!
- DOWN WITH JIM CROW!!!
- STOP SEGREGATION NOW!!
- "Others have marched with us down nameless streets of the South... Unlike so many of their moderate brothers and sisters, they have recognized the urgency of the moment and sensed the need for powerful 'action' antidotes to combat the disease of segregation."
- Slide: 0
- Daddy, why do white people treat colored people so mean?
- How can I explain this to my children?
- Into the water!
- Too late, Redcoat!
- That's gonna cost ya...
- Funtown is closed to colored children? So we can't go?
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