“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” “It is the duty of people to break unjust laws,” he wrote. King reminded them that everything that Adolf Hitler did in Germany was “legal” and everything the freedom fighters did in Hungary was “illegal.” Jail trusties passed them to his lawyers, who transformed the handwriting into a 21-page typed letter to eight white clergymen who had chastised him for breaking the law. “I am in Birmingham because injustice is here,” he wrote. wrote his “Letter from Birmingham Jail” on scraps of paper and in the margins of newspapers. If you have any other questions, contact Audience Development Director Lauchlin Fields.īy Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi Today April 16, 2023

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