Letter From A Birmingham Jail (1963) – A Powerful Message Of Resistance!

Letter From A Birmingham Jail

Martin Luther KIng wrote this moving speech in response to eight white clergymen from Alabama.

King had led peaceful protests in Birmingham, Alabama against racial injustice.

“A Call For Unity” had been been published on April 12, 1963.

The clergy members had been been upset by civil rights demonstrations in the city. They felt “outsiders” (civil rights activists) and that civil rights issues should be handled in the courts, not by demonstrations, even if they were peaceful. They were worried that protests and demonstrations would not solve the problem.

A Call For Unity

Martin Luther King responded with what is now mostly known as Letter From A Birmingham Jail.

You may read it here:

Letter From A Birmingham Jail

It was published in 1963 as “The Negro Is Your Brother” in The Atlantic.

You may listen to it here:

Further Reading and Viewing

King wrote his “letter” on scraps of paper and newspapers – Mississippi Today

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