In spring 1963, civil rights leaders campaigned for racial desegregation in Birmingham, Alabama. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the other leaders organized militantly peaceful protests, marches, boycotts, and sit-ins to create conflict that would challenge the conscience of America to remedy the inequity and injustice of segregation.
While in Birmingham, King was jailed for holding marches without a permit. While imprisoned, King responded to a published letter from moderate white preachers criticizing the civil rights campaign with his famous Letter From a Birmingham Jail, which is mandatory reading for all lovers of truth and people of conscience…
http://www.activistpost.com/2013/04/lessons-in-resistance-martin-luther.html
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