Question

Read the passage from “Letter from Birmingham City Jail” by Martin Luther King, Jr. I must close now. But before closing I am impelled to mention one other point in your statement that troubled me profoundly. You warmly commended the Birmingham police force for keeping “order” and “preventing violence.” I don’t believe you would have so warmly commended the police force if you had seen its angry violent dogs literally biting six unarmed, nonviolent Negroes. I don’t believe you would so quickly commend the policemen if you would observe their ugly and inhuman treatment of Negroes here in the city jail; if you would watch them push and curse old Negro women and young Negro girls; if you would see them slap and kick old Negro men and young Negro boys; if you will observe them, as they did on two occasions, refuse to give us food because we wanted to sing our grace together. I’m sorry that I can’t join you in your praise for the police department. Which details does Dr. King use to support his main idea? examples from a newspaper article about the police examples of police violence against prisoners examples of protesters violence against the police

Answer 1

B. Examples of police violence against prisoners

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Answer 2

A. Examples from a newspaper article about the police
B. Examples of police violence against prisoners
C. Examples of protesters violence against the police

The only correct answer here could be B.
If you read his whole letter, the point of it was to show that they were nonviolently protesting. This means that C has to be crossed out, because the only people that were being violent were the police. Option A is also crossed out because he does not mention citing evidence from a newspaper, he experienced this first hand. It has to be option B. He talks about and gives examples of police brutality towards the protesters.