Letter from Birmingham Jail, by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
WEBDr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s letter to 8 white church leaders, written from a jail cell in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963.
Letter from Birmingham Jail - Wikipedia
WEBThe "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 ...
Jail | Birmingham Police Department
WEBThe mission of the jail is to provide an enhanced level of service to the citizens of the Birmingham area by housing inmates through the establishment of a safe, secure facility; while maintaining humane custody, confinement and supervision.
The letter from the Birmingham jail - Encyclopedia Britannica
WEBSep 10, 2024 · Martin Luther King, Jr. - Civil Rights, Nonviolence, Birmingham Jail: In Birmingham, Alabama, in the spring of 1963, King’s campaign to end segregation at lunch counters and in hiring practices drew nationwide attention when police turned dogs and fire hoses on the demonstrators.
Behind Martin Luther King’s Searing ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’
WEBApr 16, 2013 · On April 12, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and nearly 50 other protestors and civil rights leaders were arrested after leading a Good Friday demonstration as part of the Birmingham Campaign,...
Letter from Birmingham Jail - Bill of Rights Institute
WEBMartin Luther King Jr. wrote the Letter from Birmingham Jail while he was imprisoned for leading nonviolent civil rights demonstrations in Alabama in 1963. The Letter from Birmingham Jail explains why MLK believed people had a responsibility to follow just laws and a duty to break unjust ones.
Letter From Birmingham Jail | Facing History & Ourselves
WEBDec 8, 2020 · Read Martin Luther King, Jr.'s response to suggestions that his nonviolent demonstrations were unwise and untimely in these excerpts from his Letter from a Birmingham Jail.
Letter from Birmingham Jail: Full Book Summary - SparkNotes
WEBThe Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. writes “Letter from Birmingham Jail” in April 1963 in response to being imprisoned for his efforts to desegregate Birmingham, an important, industrial Alabama city known for its repressive and regressive policies during the 1960s.
"Letter from Birmingham Jail" - The Martin Luther King, Jr., …
WEBAs the events of the Birmingham Campaign intensified on the city’s streets, Martin Luther King, Jr., composed a letter from his prison cell in Birmingham in response to local religious leaders’ criticisms of the campaign: “Never before have I written so long a letter.
Martin Luther King Jr. writes “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” - HISTORY
WEBApr 11, 2024 · On April 16, 1963, days after being jailed in Birmingham, Alabama, for a series of anti-segregation protests, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pens a response to his critics on some scraps of...