On April 3, 1963, the Birmingham Campaign began and people protested against racism and injustice. The nonviolent campaign was coordinated by King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Christian Human Rights Movement of Alabama. However, King was abruptly arrested along with other top campaign leaders on April 12 for disobeying rules "prohibiting parades, demonstrations, boycotts, trespassing and picketing." While imprisoned, King read a letter in the newspaper ("A Call for Unity") written by eight white Alabama clergymen against King and his methods. In the letter, the clerics said the campaign was "directed and led in part by foreigners", urging activists to resort to the courts if rights were violated rather than protest. The letter provoked King and "The Letter from Birmingham Jail" was a written response to white clergymen and in defense of the strategy of nonviolent protest. Throughout the letter, King used many stylistic writing elements and effective emotional appeal to make people want to join his case. His emotional appeal begins when he says: "The nations of Asia and Africa are moving at lightning speed toward gaining political independence, but we still crawl at the pace of a horse and carriage to take a cup of coffee at the lunch counter. And his emotional appeal continues and becomes more effective when he describes the suffering lives of black people who suffer from racism and injustice: "when you were driving cross-country and found it necessary to sleep night after night in the corner of an automobile because no hotel would accept you; when you are humiliated day after day by harassing signs reading “white” and “colored”.” This makes people want to join his case and do...... middle of paper......lse. “We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was 'legal' and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was 'illegal.' Everything Hitler did was legal, but immoral and wrong, and the things the Hungarian freedom fighters did were "illegal." doing was illegal, but it was the right thing. This alludes to the fact that King is doing the right thing, but having it is illegal, and doing the right thing and doing the legal thing don't always go hand in hand. In addition to this, he also references the "Boston Tea Party", showing that civil disobedience is not a new idea. King uses stylistic writing elements such as logos, ethos, and pathos, as well as figurative languages ​​such as allusion, metaphor. and the symbolism is why it continues to be studied. His emotional appeals are strong and effective and his sentence structures are complex and thoughtful..