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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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He waltzes into the lane ‘cross the free-throw line, Fakes a drive pivots, floats from the asphalt turf in an arc of black light, and sinks two in the chains. One on... MAKIN’ JUMP SHOTS by Michael S. Harper.
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