he demonstrators in Birmingham were not the only people fighting for equal rights; equality was something that was being fought for around the country. The reason his presence in Birmingham was so influential was because of the extensive amount of experience he had in dealing with peaceful protests and demonstrations. He did not go into Birmingham with the intentions of causing more problems for the town, yet the local leaders looked at him as another problem they had to overpower.
             Two other key points King responded to were that the demonstrations were occurring at an unwise and untimely point for the town and that local leaders were dealing with the issues in a reasonable fashion. The only problems King had against waiting for local officials to take the proper steps towards desegregating Birmingham were; the Black community had been waiting for hundreds of years to be thought of as equals in their own country, and that the very local officials who were supposedly working hard on behalf of the Black community were the same people who had repeatedly lied to them. The leaders of the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights tried on more than one occasion to work with the white leaders of Birmingham; Black leaders would hold off on demonstrations as long as steps were made by the white leaders towards accepting the desegregation of Birmingham. Time after time the promise to change the town was made by the white leaders, and as predicted those promises were broken even though the demonstrations had come to a halt by that time.
             Lastly King comments on the legal aspect of the demonstrations and that there are some laws that should not be obeyed due to moral obligations one must face. At no point in any of his preaching does King commend
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