He wrote that when the laws are not truly true to what they are meant to do, then insubordination and civil disobedience is justified
His writing the letter was inspired an announcement made by eight white Alabama ministers a couple of days earlier , titled "A Call For Unity,". He conveyed in his letter that though social shameful acts were occurring yet communicated the conviction that the fight against racial isolation ought to be battled exclusively in the courts and not taken onto the roads.