Choose the statement that best summarizes King’s claim in this passage.
1 Negotiations are generally useless when trying to end injustice.
2 Protests are an effective and appropriate way to end injustice in Birmingham.
3 Birmingham is a brutal place for African Americans to live.
4 The Birmingham clergy are correct in criticizing the way King has led the protest.
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In 1963, the world watched as peaceful civil rights demonstrators battled police dogs and fire hoses in a fight for freedom and equality in Birmingham, Alabama.

Correct option is B.

The city authorities got an injunction against the protests from the state circuit court on April 10. Campaign leaders decided to defy the court injunction after much deliberation. "We cannot in good conscience obey such an injunction,"King declared,"because it is an unjust, undemocratic, and unconstitutional misuse of the judicial process". King debated whether or not he and Ralph Abernathy should be detained.

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