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What is the purpose of King’s "Letter from a Birmingham Jail”?

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Answer:wrote A Letter from Birmingham Jail in 1963, in which he was in imprisoned for protesting against the treatment of black people in Birmingham, Alabama. The purpose of this letter was to defend his position for nonviolent direct action and with the use of rhetorical appeal allows the reader to agree.

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