On this day in 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his 'Letter from Birmingham Jail'.
by Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi Today April 16, 2023 APRIL 16, 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his “Letter from Birmingham Jail” on scraps of paper and in the margins of newspapers. “I am in Birmingham because injustice is here,” he wrote. Jail trusties passed them to his lawyers, who transformed the handwriting into a 21-page typed letter to eight white clergymen who had chastised him for breaking the law.
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