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Recreation of Martin Luther King Jr.'s cell in Birmingham Jail at the National Civil Rights Museum. The "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.
A Call for Unity" was an open letter published in The Birmingham [Alabama] News, on April 12, 1963, by eight local white clergymen in response to civil rights demonstrations taking place in the area at the time. In the letter, they took issue with events "directed and led in part by outsiders," and they urged activists to engage in local ...
Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph Abernathy, Fred Shuttlesworth and others were arrested in a Birmingham, Alabama, protest for "parading without a permit". Died: Herbie Nichols, 44, American jazz pianist and composer; of leukemia; Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, 72, Polish philosopher and logician
On April 12, 1963, Grafman joined seven of the signatories to the previous Appeal in issuing a second statement, known as "A Call for Unity". This statement was a response to the preparations for the Birmingham campaign , a strategic movement organized by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), led by King to bring attention to the ...
It was Martin Luther King Jr. who had the dream. But it was the pop songwriters of the 1960s who set it to music. And a few brave TV producers who put it on the tube.
In honor of MLK Day, read the most famous Martin Luther King Jr. quotes. With his words, he inspires us all to pursue justice, love, freedom and equality.
Birmingham, Alabama was, in 1963, "probably the most thoroughly segregated city in the United States", according to King. [8] Although the city's population of almost 350,000 was 60% white and 40% black, [9] Birmingham had no black police officers, firefighters, sales clerks in department stores, bus drivers, bank tellers, or store cashiers.
A visitor looks closely at the original copy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech on display at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in ...