On Good Friday in 1963, activists led by Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., marched into downtown Birmingham to protest the existing segregation laws. All of them were arrested. This caused the clergymen of this Southern town to write a letter to the black population to stop their demonstrations. This letter appeared in the Birmingham newspaper. In response, Martin Luther King wrote a letter that would be the turning point of the Civil Rights movement and provide inspiration to the struggle for racial equality. Martin Luther King's “Letter from Birmingham Jail” tries to
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