Background: Dr. King was in Birmingham, Alabama, to lead a boycott of discriminatory stores. The goals of the boycott were to desegregate store facilities and establish fair hiring practices. On April 12, King went against an injunction (legal ruling) against marching and led fifty protesters in a peaceful march toward City Hall. Four blocks into the march, he was arrested.
1. Who do you think is the “you” that Dr. King is referring to in the letter? 2. Define a “just law” and an “unjust law” in your can words. 3. What is one of the examples King gives of an “unjust law”?
