... Luther King, Jr. was arrested. The act of civil disobedience immediately evoked a reaction from eight white clergymen, who, in a statement printed in the local newspaper, called King "an outsider" and deemed his actions in Birmingham "unwise and untimely." Mentally challenged and with nothing but time, King responded by composing a letter that came to be known as "The Letter from a Birmingham Jail ... the ground that a higher moral law was at stake," represents an act of civil disobedience. For King, knowing who were for the blacks and who were against them was more acceptable than not ...

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