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Letter from Birmingham Jail Notes  The purpose of this letter was to tell everyone about the segregation in the South against the African Americans.  MLK was the president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference  4 basic steps in any non-violent campaign o collection of facts to determine whether injustices are alive o negotiation o self-purification o direct action  Birmingham- most segregated city in US  There was an opportunity to negotiate and promises were made to remove the humiliating racial signs from the stores but the promises were broken  Process of self-purification began: o Workshops on nonviolence  Law just or unjust o Just law: a man-made code that squares with the moral law, or law of God o Unjust law: code that is out of harmony with the moral law  Any law that degrades human personality  MLK did not have any attention is creating a commotion, but he really wanted to get his point across about segregation  In this letter you can see the courage and strength MLK had, if I were in this situation I would definetly not have the courage to do what MLK tried to do  My only question, what is the purpose of segregation? Why would people want to do that? If we treated each other equally then we could live peacefully?...