| Letter from Birmingham Jail DBQ Worksheet |
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Click here to print this worksheet, featuring the text of Dr. Martin Luther King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail."
Answers will vary. 1. How does Dr. King react to accusations that his actions were "unwise and untimely"? 2. What injustices does Dr. King describe? 3. According to Dr. King, what does segregation do to the segregator and to the segregated? 4. Do you find Dr. King’s argument convincing? Why or why not? |
| UNIT I: | Early America | UNIT IX: | Discontent and Reform | ||
| UNIT II: | Colonial Period | UNIT X: | War, Prosperity, and Depression | ||
| UNIT III: | American Revolution | UNIT XI: | New Deal and World War II | ||
| UNIT IV: | New National Government | UNIT XII: | Postwar America | ||
| UNIT V: | Westward Expansion | UNIT XIII: | Decades of Change | ||
| UNIT VI: | Sectional Conflict | UNIT XIV: | New Conservatism | ||
| UNIT VII: | Civil War and Reconstruction | UNIT XV: | Into the Twenty-first Century | ||
| UNIT VIII: | Growth and Transformation | UNIT XVI: | Polarization and Deglobalization |
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