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Tue, 04.16.1963

Martin Luther King Jr. Writes the “Letter Frome a Birmingham Jail”

On this date, in 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was jailed in Birmingham, Alabama.

While incarcerated, he wrote, smuggled out of jail, and printed his “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” a moving justification for the moral necessity of non-violent resistance to unjust laws.

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i arrive /Langston the new york times told me when to come but I attended your funeral late by habit of colored folk and didnt miss a... DO NOTHING TILL YOU HEAR FROM ME (for Langston Hughes) by David Henderson.
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