he wanted to fight the Jim Crow laws
Letter from Birmingham Jail was written on the 16th of April 1963
He was arrested is June, 1964. He was arrested because he held a protest.
1963
He went to jail in 1960, 1962, 1963 and 1965 all for believing in what he did
Letter From A Birmingham Jail is a open letter penned by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during his incarceration at Birmingham city jail. It was written on April 16, 1963 and it addressed the clergymen of the area in response to their "A Call for Unity". In it, King largely calls for the clergy members to do the duties they are supposed to do as clergymen.
Birmingham Jail Letter
April 12, 1963King and Abernathy are arrested in Birmingham, AlabamaKing and Ralph Abernathy are arrested for violating a state circuit court injunction against protests, after having led a march the same day. King is placed in solitary confinement in the Birmingham jail where he will soon write "Letter From Birmingham Jail."
"Letter from Birmingham Jail" was a published about Martin Luther King in 1963. This was written about defending the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism.
(1963) A letter that Martin Luther King, Jr., addressed to his fellow clergymen while he was in jail in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963, after a nonviolent protest against racial segregation
King's Letter from a Birmingham Jail
no, he died april 4th, 1963...
Martin Luther King, Jr in 1963 while in a Birmingham, Alabama jail cell