1. A Letter from Birmingham Jail
Most of the time, they were told to "wait," but King tries to describe to the white people of America that we don't know what it feels like to be "harried by day and haunted by night by the fact that you are a Negro, living constantly at tiptoe stancewhen you go forever fighting a degenerating sense of 'nobodiness.'... It's important to note this because it is something that still happens today, not to such an extreme extent, but relevant nonetheless. ...
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- Grade Level: High School