In his "Letter from Birmingham Jail," Martin Luther King described the purpose of nonviolent direct action to create tension to force negotiation (D).
Further explanation
Martin Luther King, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), one of the leaders of the civil right movement sent a letter describing the violence that African-American faced. This letter is known as "A letter from Birmingham Jail." Birmingham was one of America’s most racially discriminatory and segregated cities. Many bombings have happened in Birmingham, one of them was The Birmingham church bombing. It happened on September 15, 1963, in Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama. Most of the church's members were African-American and this church also served as a regular meeting place for civil rights leaders
Martin Luther King was in jail in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963. In his letter from the jail, he wrote that in any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: a collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self-purification; and direct action, all those actions are already taken and there were no result. The purpose of the direct-action program is to create a situation so crisis-packed, create tension to open the door for negotiation.
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