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In "Letter from Birmingham Jail," King cites T. S. Eliot's observation about doing "the

right deed for the wrong reason." How does Eliot's observation apply to actions that

King describes in his letter?

a. It applies to the "Negro sit inners and demonstrators" who show amazing

discipline in their nonviolent protests, even when they face great

provocation.

b. It applies to those Birmingham police officers who show restraint in

handling the demonstrators in public but treat them very harshly in the

privacy of the city jail.

C. It applies to the seventy-two-year-old African American woman who

supports the boycott of Montgomery’s segregated bus system even

though she is tired and oppressed.

d. It applies to those Birmingham police officers who use legal, nonviolent

means to handle demonstrators in public but do so to maintain the

injustice of racial discrimination.

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ProfChris1

Eliot's observation apply to actions that King describes in his letter as seen in the option below:

D. It applies to those Birmingham police officers who use legal, nonviolent means to handle demonstrators in public but do so to maintain the injustice of racial discrimination.

Let's explore why Option D is the correct answer. In order to ascertain that, we need to look into some of the statements made by King in "The Letter From Birmingham Jail"

Letter From Birmingham Jail

In "Letter From Birmingham Jail" written by Martin Luther King Jr., King revealed that: "...Mr. Connor and his policemen have been rather nonviolent in public, as was Chief Pritchett in Albany, Georgia, but they have used the moral means of nonviolence to maintain the immoral end of racial injustice". In other words, the police used nonviolent means in the public to handle demonstrators but uses it as well to maintain the injustice of racial discrimination.

This then makes it clear how Eliot's observation apply to the actions mentioned by King in the letter.

"Letter From Birmingham Jail" was written by Martin Luther King Jr. in 1963 when he was confined to Birmingham Jail.

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