Malcolm X's Necessary to Protect Ourselves versus Martin Luther King's Letter from Birmingha

Letter from Birmingham Jail

- The format of this text is a letter.

- The main idea of the text was to explain and/or justify MLK and the SCLC's actions and their intentions.

- The tone was serious, collective, and assertive.

- Martin Luther King used a series of pathos to sympathize with the African Americans who can't do as much as the whites. Also, he uses it to show how segregation should be discontinued due to its bad intent.

Necessary to Protect Ourselves

- The format of this text is an interview.

- The main idea of the text expresses Malcolm X's opinions and who may have the right to own them.

- Malcolm X used a series of pathos examples to emphasize the importance of African American to protect themselves.

- Many white were involved with crimes that remained unpunished, which created an unsafe environment for the African Americans.