MLK's Letter from Birmingham Jail & Alice in Wonderland

Analysis of MLK's Letter from Birmingham Jail

1. Though individuals may see the moral light, what does MLK say is the tendency of groups? Groups do not give up their privileges voluntarily.
2. What is the purpose of direct action? To create a crisis and establish creative tension so that a community that has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue.
3. Name two hard, brutal facts regarding injustice in Birmingham? There have been more unsolved bombings on Negro homes and churches, and Negroes have been treated unjustly in the courts.
4. What are the four basic steps in any nonviolent campaign? Collection of facts, negotiation, self-purification, direct action.
5. In paragraph one, what does the line "when the hour came we lived up to our promise" imply about King's character and beliefs? How does this line help strengthen King's argument? King was a man of his word. He did not become violent, just as he promised. He believed that nonviolence was the answer to correct the injustices.
6. Why did he write the letter? Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. felt that his critics were people of genuine goodwill and wanted to answer them in patient and reasonable terms.
7. What does a non-violent direct action try to achieve? Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks to dramatize the issue so that it can no longer be ignored.

Alice in Wonderland (1951 Film)

Alice in Wonderland is a 1951 American animated musical fantasy-adventure film produced by Walt Disney Productions and based on the Alice books by Lewis Carroll. The 13th release of Disney's animated features, the film premiered in London on July 26, 1951, and in New York City on July 28, 1951. The film features the voices of Kathryn Beaumont as Alice, Sterling Holloway as the Cheshire Cat, Verna Felton as the Queen of Hearts, and Ed Wynn as the Mad Hatter.

• The book was published in 1865.

Directed by

Clyde Geronimi

Wilfred Jackson

Hamilton Luske