Sympathetic to the injustices, "but they should be resolved in the courts "and not through the type of protests, "the type of tension, Now, what motivated Martin Luther King to write this letter was a statement made in the newspaper byĮight Alabama clergymen, which encouraged the protesters to wait saying, "That, yes, we are The Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed by Congress asīeing heavily influenced by Martin Luther King's letter. Not only is it moving, but it really gives the philosophical underpinnings of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. People say, "Hey, heĬould read the phone book, "and it would move people." But this also speaks to whatĪn incredible writer he was. And Martin Luther King often gets a lot of credit as an amazing speaker. It is one of the most powerful documents, frankly, I have ever read. Going to read together in this video is what has become known as Martin Luther King's Letterįrom a Birmingham Jail, which he wrote from a jail cell in 1963 after he and several of his associates were arrested in Birmingham, Alabama as they nonviolently
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