Letter From Birmingham Jail

Central Purpose

what is the central purpose of the text

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Martin Luther King Jr. uses the letters to defend his strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism and opression. He states that people have the moral responsibility to break unjust laws in a peaceful manner.

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