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Martin Luther King Jr. and Civil Disobedience

Question 7 • ELA 11B-CR

Read the excerpt from Dr. Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.How does King support this claim?

Answer
A
by describing his own experience with waiting for civil rights
B
by providing quotes from militant civil rights demonstrators
C
by explaining the racist attitudes of white politicians
D
by recalling a dream of his in which all people were equal
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