Hard Times In and Out of Jail At the time Dr. King wrote “Letter from Birmingham City Jail,” blacks were going through tremendous struggles in life. Blacks were shunned from one side of the nation to the other. Dr. King had been arrested at the time and was locked up in a Birmingham City Jail. Birmingham was known for its racial discrepancies, and for its police brutality record. In King’s letter he appeals to …showed first 75 words of 825 total…

…showed last 75 words of 825 total…a bus, to using the bathroom at a restaurant, to drinking out of a water fountain at lunch these people were segregated. After many years of fighting and discrimination King finally won what he was after “equality.” At the end of the 60’s desegregated Birmingham and the civil rights became law. It is a shining chapter in history that opened many doors for blacks to have the equal opportunities that white people had in life.