Martin Luther King Jr.s Letter from Birmingham Jail Video
FULL FILM: A Reading of the Letter from Birmingham Jail Martin Luther King Jr.s Letter from Birmingham Jail
I can assure you that it would have been much shorter if I had been writing from a comfortable desk, but what else can one do when he is alone in a narrow jail cell, other than write long letters, think long thoughts and pray long prayers? In an effort to revive the campaign, King and Ralph Abernathy had donned work clothes and marched from Sixth Avenue Baptist Church into a waiting police wagon. He went on to explain that the purpose of direct action was to create a crisis situation out of which negotiation could emerge.
In closing, he hoped to meet the eight fellow clergymen who authored the first letter. Footnotes Garrow, Bearing the Cross, This entry is part of the following collection.]
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