Read the excerpt from “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”In our own nation, the Boston Tea Party represented a massive act of civil disobedience.Why does King use this allusion?

King compares his actions to the Boston Tea Party, a well-known example of Americans openly resisting laws they believed were unjust. The allusion shows that civil disobedience has a place in the nation’s history and establishes a precedent for his own actions. Therefore, the best answer is “to establish historical precedent for his actions.”

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