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''Letter From Birmingham Jail''

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Author
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Place Written
Washington, D.C.
Document Date
1/1986
Genre
Published article
Document Type
Document
Type of Writing
Printed -- published
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Author
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Author Dates
1929-1968
Document ID
860100-000
Document Date
1/1986
Type of Writing
Printed -- published
Document Type
Document
Status
Undecided
Place Written
Washington, D.C.
Genre
Published article
Document Length
8 pp.
Document Note
Reprint of Letter from Birmingham Jail.
Published In
American Visions 1 (January 1986): 52-59.
Dates
4/16/1963
9/1962
3/1963
4/12/1963
4/14/1963
1/1963
Names
Shuttlesworth, Fred L. [Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR)]
Socrates
Niebuhr, Reinhold
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
Aquinas, Thomas, Saint
Shadrach (Biblical figure)
Meshach (Biblical figure)
Abednego (Biblical figure)
Nebuchadnezzar I, King of Babylonia, 12th cent. B.C.
Hitler, Adolf
Elijah Muhammad
Amos (Biblical prophet)
Bunyan, John
Lincoln, Abraham
Jefferson, Thomas
McGill, Ralph
Smith, Lillian Eugenia
Golden, Harry
Dabbs, James McBride
Barnett, Ross R.
Boyle, Sarah-Patton
Braden, Anne
Stallings, Edward
Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns)
Pollard, Francis
Organizations
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Birmingham City Jail
Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR)
United States. Supreme Court
Ku Klux Klan
White Citizens Council
Birmingham (Ala.). Police Dept.
Springhill College
Places
Atlanta, Ga. Birmingham, Ala. New Orleans, La. Montgomery, Ala. Albany, Ga.
Topics
Martin Luther King, Jr. - Publications - Reprints
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Birmingham, 1963
Why We Can't Wait
Afro-Americans - Civil rights
Albany Movement
Civil Disobedience
Civil rights
Direct action
Jews
Martin Luther King, Jr. - Arrests
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Natural law
Nonviolence
Police - Complaints against
Segregation--law and legislation
Church and Race Relations
Martin Luther King, Jr. - Political and Social views
Other Topics
Why We Can't Wait
Matthew 5:44
Amos 5:24
Declaration of Independence
U.S. Constitution
Copy Location (1)
MLKPP, Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.
Date Created
7/23/1999 12:00:00 AM
Date Verified
07/26/1999
Date Updated
9/13/2010 12:17:02 PM
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