Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote “Letter from Birmingham Jail” while incarcerated in a jail in Alabama. Even though the letter was written for specific people and had a specific purpose, it addresses universal questions and offers ideas that remain applicable even today.
In 1963, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference was invited to Birmingham to help affiliates who were protesting segregation. King believed that a dramatization was necessary to awaken the national consciousness and get progress. This dramatization needed to be captured and disseminated by the media. That is what King was looking for in Birmingham to help the local fight against segregation and discrimination.
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