Letter from a Birmingham Jail

A set of fill-in-the-blank flashcards based on Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail.

I am here because I am the president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, headquartered in __.

Atlanta, Georgia

One affiliate in Birmingham is the __ Movement for Human Rights.

Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights

The four basic steps of a nonviolent campaign are collection of the facts, __, self purification, and direct action.

negotiation

The idea that '__' is a threat to justice everywhere.

Injustice anywhere

We are caught in an '__' network of mutuality.

inescapable

The '__' idea of outsiders is criticized.

outside agitator

The Commissioner of Public Safety is __.

Eugene 'Bull' Connor

There are two types of laws: just and __.

unjust

An unjust law is a code that is __ with the moral law.

out of harmony

Segregation substitutes an 'I it' relationship for an 'I __' relationship.

thou

To illustrate the need for tension, King compares to Socrates, showing that we must rise to the realm of __.

understanding and brotherhood

Shadrach, Meshach, and __ refused to obey Nebuchadnezzar.

Abednego

Was not Jesus an extremist for love, and was not Amos an extremist for __?

justice

Time itself is neutral; it can be used either destructively or __.

constructively

The white moderate is more devoted to '__' than to justice.

order

Too long has the South been bogged down in a tragic effort to live in __ rather than dialogue.

monologue

The new Birmingham mayor is __.

Albert Boutwell

Privileged groups seldom give up their privileges __.

voluntarily

We have waited for more than __ years for our constitutional and God given rights.

340

The nations of Asia and Africa are moving toward gaining political __.

independence

White ministers should declare: 'Follow this decree because integration is morally right and because the Negro is your __'.

brother

The church is the body of __.

Christ

The church should be a 'thermostat' that transforms the mores of society, not a '' that merely records them.

thermometer

The early Christians pressed on because they were a colony of heaven, called to obey __ rather than man.

God

Was not Jesus an extremist? Was not Amos an extremist for __?

justice

Some white Southern writers have written about our struggle in __ terms.

eloquent and prophetic

If white moderates dismiss outsiders, many Negroes will seek solace in black nationalist ideologies—a development that would inevitably lead to a __ racial nightmare.

frightening

Their witness has been the spiritual __ that has preserved the true meaning of the gospel in these troubled times.

salt

It was '__' to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany.

illegal

If I lived in Germany at the time, I would have __ and comforted my Jewish brothers.

aided

King expresses disappointment with the white __ and its leadership.

church

The early Christians were called to obey God rather than __.

man

The letter ends with 'Yours for the cause of Peace and __.'

Brotherhood