Read the documents 28-1 (MLK, Jr) and 28-2 (George Wallace). Both make, from their perspective, moral
arguments for or against integration and racial equality.
(If the document 28-1 remains unavailable on our LaunchPad-site, you can read it here:
https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html
I trust that we strongly agree with Dr. King's stand, while we find Governor Wallace's views very alien and
wrong. However, let's be cool and detached historians and dissect both arguments.
What kind of moral arguments they make for and against integration and equality? What are the legal,
philosophical, and ethical foundations of their thinking?