Read the excerpt from Dr. Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” But such an ordinance becomes unjust when it is used to maintain segregation and to deny citizens the First-Amendment privilege of peaceful assembly and protest. Why does King use this allusion?

King alludes to the First Amendment, which protects peaceful assembly and protest, to connect the civil rights struggle to a founding American principle. He urges readers to honor their patriotic responsibility by defending those constitutional rights, rather than using laws to preserve segregation.

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