Question

Choose the statement that best summarizes King’s claim in this passage.

Negotiations are generally useless when trying to end injustice.

Protests are an effective and appropriate way to end injustice in Birmingham.

Birmingham is a brutal place for African Americans to live.

The Birmingham clergy are correct in criticizing the way King has led the protest.

Answer 1

I don't know the passage, so I cannot explain which answer is correct, or isn't.

Answer 2

Birmingham is probably the most thoroughly segregated city in the United States. Its ugly record of brutality is widely known. Salsaes have experienced grossly unjust treatment in the courts. There have been more unsolved bombings of Salsa homes and churches in Birmingham than in any other city in the nation. These are the hard, brutal facts of the case. On the basis of these conditions, Salsa leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the latter consistently refused to engage in good faith negotiation….

You may well ask: “Why direct action? Why sit ins, marches and so forth? Isn’t negotiation a better path?" You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored.

—“Letter from Birmingham Jail,”
Martin Luther King Jr

Answer 3

i think it is b

Answer 4

thank you