Letter from Birmingham Jail - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Category: Misc. Non-fiction, Political
Language: English
Keywords: Civil Rights Movement Bus Boycott Rosa Parks Memphis

Written by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Read by Dion Graham
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 96 Kbps

Letter from Birmingham Jail
Written by: Martin Luther King, Jr.
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 51 mins
Format: Unabridged
Release Date:04-15-13
Publisher: Mission Audio
Program Type: Audiobook

Publisher’s Summary

Audie Award Finalist, Original Work, 2013

April 16th, the year is 1963. Birmingham, Alabama, has had a spring of nonviolent protests known as the Birmingham Campaign, seeking to draw attention to the segregation against blacks by the city government and downtown retailers. The organizers longed to create a nonviolent tension so severe that the powers that be would be forced to address the rampant racism head on. Recently arrested was Martin Luther King, Jr….

It is there in that jail cell that he writes this letter; on the margins of a newspaper he pens this defense of nonviolence against segregation. His accusers, though many, in this case were not the white racist leaders or retailers he protested against, but eight black men who saw him as “other” and as too extreme. To them and to the world he defended the notion that “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”.

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