Question 1: King's Letter from B'ham

Question 1

what three groups of evidence

Answer 1

• Theological
• Activists
• Revolutionary events that established precedent/ principle of freedom and democracy

Question 2

what were the White Moderate arguments

Answer 2

• why DA
• Why not wait (untimely)
• Actions must be condemned because they break the law

Question 3

Which argument provoke religious assertion that an unjust law need not be obeyed; who backs it? (theo group)

Answer 3

o St Augustine: unjust law is no law at all
o St Aquinas: law is unjust if not roted in eternal or natural law
o Martin Buber: Segregationist law substitutes I-thou with I-it
o Paul Tillich: sin is separation
• Segregation is expression of man’s separation and sinfulness
o Niebhur: groups suck
• “Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed”

Question 4

What activist was bad alternative and how

Answer 4

i. E Muhammad
2. Hatred and despair, Ultimately violent

DA better: Most constructive ground between complacent “do-nothingness” (appalling silence” of men of good will) and the hatred/despair of black nationalism

Question 5

What activist characterizes life of pioneer?

Answer 5

James Meredith

Question 6

Extreme revolutionary actions that establish precedent/ principle of Freedom and Democracy

Answer 6

i. Abe
1. “This nation cannot survive half slave and half free”
2. Changing unjust law

Jefferson

1. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal”
2. Declaration of independence

Question 7

Nonviolence conclusion

Answer 7

though his philosophy was of nonviolence, people claimed it extreme