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

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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Edu Zaurus.com

King Institute.Stanford.edu

A Spiritual Response To The Murder of Martin Luther King Jr., Rev. Samuel Kyles

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Reverend Samuel Kyles was a minister and activist. In this segment, he talks about his calling after witnessing Martin Luther King Jr.'s death.

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