Read the excerpt from “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” In our own nation, the Boston Tea Party represented a massive act of civil disobedience. Why does King use this allusion?

King compares civil disobedience to the Boston Tea Party, a celebrated act of resistance in American history. This allusion shows that breaking a law can be justified when it challenges injustice, and that such actions have a respected historical precedent. The choice is “to establish historical precedent for his actions.”

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