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The "Letter from Birmingham Jail", also known as the "Letter from Birmingham City Jail" and "The Negro Is Your Brother", is an open letter written on April 16, 1963, by Martin Luther King Jr. It says that people have a moral responsibility to break unjust laws and to take direct action rather than waiting potentially forever for justice to come ...
A Call for Unity" was an open letter published in The Birmingham [Alabama] News, on April 12, 1963, by eight local white clergymen in response to civil rights demonstrations taking place in the area at the time. In the letter, they took issue with events "directed and led in part by outsiders," and they urged activists to engage in local ...
English: FBI File 104-10125-10133 titled: Martin Luther King Jr., A Current Analysis.This document was originally classified as secret by the United States government with "total denial", which has since been declassified and released to the public in the 21st century.
In his lifetime, Martin Luther King Jr. gave more than 2,500 speeches, but one of his most famous works didn’t take place on a stage with thousands of people but in the solitude of imprisonment.
Why We Can't Wait is a 1964 book by Martin Luther King Jr. about the nonviolent movement against racial segregation in the United States, and specifically the 1963 Birmingham campaign. The book describes 1963 as a landmark year in the civil rights movement , and as the beginning of America's "Negro Revolution".
Earl Stallings was an American Baptist minister and activist in the Civil Rights Movement.In 1963, Rev. Earl Stallings was one of eight signers of the open letter "A Call For Unity," which precipitated a critical response from Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. in his "Letter from Birmingham Jail."
Under the Martin Luther King Jr.Records Collection Act, the remaining files pertaining to King are not due for release until 2027. King was fatally shot by James Earl Ray at the Lorraine Motel in ...
The Jan. 23 executive order gives intelligence officials two weeks to come up with a plan to make the remaining JFK assassination files available to the public, and 45 days for the RFK and MLK ...