Directions: After reading the excerpt from Martin Luther King Jr's Letter from Birmingham City Jail highlight and then, in your own words, type the answers for the following questions. Please type your answers in a different color. 1. King faced criticism for being in Birmingham as an outsider. Explain this criticism, and his response to it (his rationale for being there). 2. What are the four basic steps King outlines for a nonviolent campaign? Would you add any additional steps? What are some examples of people using these approaches today? 3. According to Dr. King, does direct action hinder negotiation? 4. King is more disappointed with the white moderate than with the KKK... please explain this phenomenon. How could King be more upset with. moderate whites than violent extremists like clansmen? 5. Explain King's question "Is organized religion too inextricably bound to the status quo to save our nation and world?" Though he poses this a question, he is making a statement. What is he claiming about organized religion? In what way is this criticism still relevant today? 6. Identify a quote from King that you think exemplifies the struggle for Civil Rights and type it below. Explain how this quote exemplifies the struggle for Civil Rights.

Directions: After reading the excerpt from Martin Luther King Jr's Letter from Birmingham City Jail highlight and then, in your own words, type the answers for the following questions. Please type your answers in a different color. 1. King faced criticism for being in Birmingham as an outsider. Explain this criticism, and his response to it (his rationale for being there). 2. What are the four basic steps King outlines for a nonviolent campaign? Would you add any additional steps? What are some examples of people using these approaches today? 3. According to Dr. King, does direct action hinder negotiation? 4. King is more disappointed with the white moderate than with the KKK... please explain this phenomenon. How could King be more upset with. moderate whites than violent extremists like clansmen? 5. Explain King's question "Is organized religion too inextricably bound to the status quo to save our nation and world?" Though he poses this a question, he is making a statement. What is he claiming about organized religion? In what way is this criticism still relevant today? 6. Identify a quote from King that you think exemplifies the struggle for Civil Rights and type it below. Explain how this quote exemplifies the struggle for Civil Rights.