Letter from Birmingham Jail

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Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘Letter From Birmingham Jail’ | The Atlantic

January 22, 2019January 17, 2022African American History, Black History ...

“We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because the goal of America is freedom.”

Martin Luther King Jr.’s scorn for ‘white moderates’ in his Birmingham jail letter | The Washington Post

January 15, 2018January 17, 2022Affirmative Action, African American Activist ...

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. began writing the “Letter From a Birmingham Jail” in the margins of newspapers, on scraps of paper, paper towels and slips of yellow legal paper smuggled into his cell, where he was kept in solitary confinement after being arrested April 12, 1963, on charges of violating Alabama’s law against mass public demonstrations.