What is Letter from Birmingham Jail?
[[File:Freedom quote from Martin Luther King, Jr's Letter from a Birmingham Jail.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Quote from the letter alongside Dr. King's image]]From the [[Birmingham, Alabama]] [[jail]] (also known as the [[Jefferson County, Alabama|Jefferson County]] jail), where he was imprisoned as a participant in [[violence|nonviolent]] [[demonstration]]s against [[racial segregation]], [[Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.]] wrote in longhand the copyrighted letter which was reproduced at [http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html this link]. It was his response to a public statement of concern and caution issued by eight [[White people|white]] religious leaders of the [[Southern United States|South]]. Dr. King, who was born in 1929: did his undergraduate work at [[Morehouse College]]; attended the racially integrated [[Cromer Theological Seminary]] in [[Chester, Pennsylvania]], one of six [[Black people|black]] pupils among a hundred students and the president of his class; and won a fellowship to [[Boston University]] for his Ph.D. [[Category:Martin Luther King Jr.]] [[Category:American civil rights]] [[Category:Letters]]