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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 Reading of the "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" Birmingham, AL A digital recording of Dr. King reading his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail". [63] June 23: The 'Great March on Detroit' speech: Detroit, MI: King's first "I Have A Dream" Speech – Titled, in LP released by Detroit's Gordy records, The Great March to Freedom August 28 "I Have a Dream"
The term "outsider" was a thinly-veiled reference to Martin Luther King Jr., who replied four days later, with his famous "Letter from Birmingham Jail." He argued that direct action was necessary to protest unjust laws. [2] The authors of "A Call for Unity" had written "An Appeal for Law and Order and Common Sense" in January 1963. [3]
In 1963, while jailed in Birmingham, Alabama, during anti-segregation protests, King penned the famous words, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
In 1963, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was behind bars in Alabama as a result of his continuing crusade for civil rights. While there, he was the subject of criticism by eight white clergymen ...
It also afforded the Letter from Birmingham Jail its widest circulation yet. [2] King traveled to promote the book, while also still involved in the St. Augustine Movement. [41] Why We Can't Wait was an important part of the effort to make the civil rights struggle known to national and international audiences. Describing Birmingham as "the ...
Martin Luther King Jr., a year later in 1964, promoting the book Why We Can't Wait, based on his "Letter from Birmingham Jail" Martin Luther King Jr. was held in the Birmingham jail and was denied a consultation with an attorney from the NAACP without guards present. When historian Jonathan Bass wrote of the incident in 2001, he noted that news ...
On a hot summer day in 1963, more than 200,000 demonstrators calling for civil rights joined Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.