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apr 16, 1963 - MLK goes to a Birmingham jail

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King's Letter from a Birmingham Jail. In 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested and sent to jail because he and others were protesting the treatment of blacks in Birmingham, Alabama. A court had ordered that King could not hold protests in Birmingham.

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apr 16, 1963
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~ 63 years ago

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