Skip to main content

Martin Luther King Jr's scorn for ‘white moderates’ in his Birmingham jail letter

Martin Luther King Jr.,Holidays,General News

From the Left

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. began writing the “Letter From a Birmingham Jail” in the margins of newspapers, on scraps of paper, paper towels and slips of yellow legal paper smuggled into his cell, where he was kept in solitary confinement after being arrested April 12, 1963, on charges of violating Alabama’s law against mass public demonstrations.

AllSides Picks

More News about General News

News from the Left

News from the Center

News from the Right