Letter from Birmingham City Jail

Letter from Birmingham City Jail

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968

Segregation

Nonviolence -- Religious aspects

African Americans -- Civil Rights - Alabama -- Birmingham

Civil rights movememnts -- Alabama -- Birmingham -- History -- 20th century

Blacks -- United States

Minorities

Birmingham (Ala.) -- Race relations

History

Addressed to Bishop C.C.J. Carpenter and other clergymen in response to criticisms of Martin Luther King and his contemporaries' peaceful protests in the city of Birmingham, Alabama. In this letter Dr. King speaks on the duty people have to recognize and speak out against immoral laws like the one instituted in Birminham at the time being used to suppress civil rights protestors.

Available in the Watkinson Library.

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968

American Friends Service Committee, Philadelphia, 1963

1963

Donated to the Watkinson by Stephen L. Peterson

Document, physical

English