Comments on: Martin Luther King, Jr. the Historian (Reflections on “Letter from Birmingham Jail”) https://hankeringforhistory.com/martin-luther-king-jr-the-historian-reflections-on-letter-from-birmingham-jail/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=martin-luther-king-jr-the-historian-reflections-on-letter-from-birmingham-jail Hanker: To have a strong, often restless desire, in this case for--you guessed it--history! Wed, 20 Nov 2013 16:35:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: Tammy https://hankeringforhistory.com/martin-luther-king-jr-the-historian-reflections-on-letter-from-birmingham-jail/#comment-1003 Wed, 20 Nov 2013 16:35:46 +0000 https://hankeringforhistory.com/?p=16115#comment-1003 How common was this type of thing, to appeal to an audience using religious ideals and terminology, around the time?

]]> By: Dan https://hankeringforhistory.com/martin-luther-king-jr-the-historian-reflections-on-letter-from-birmingham-jail/#comment-990 Thu, 14 Nov 2013 23:12:26 +0000 https://hankeringforhistory.com/?p=16115#comment-990 I agree. King used these familiar quotations to place his actions and the civil rights movement in general squarely in the context of Christianity, Christian history, American history, and American ideals.

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