He wasn't writing to Birgingham jail, he was writing from the Birmingham jail, where he was being detained at the time, to his "fellow clergymen" of Alabama.
To straight out answer your question, he was in Birmingham jail when he wrote the letter in question (it's called "Letter From a Birmingham Jail")
Letter from Birmingham Jail was written on the 16th of April 1963
non-violant
Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote the letter from Birmingham Jail on April 16, 1963 in the margins of a newspaper while incarcerated. He was arrested for his nonviolent protest of Birmingham's segregated city government and downtown retailers. The letter outlines the goals of his movement and is directed at eight white Alabama clergymen who released a statement calling him an outsider and troublemaker.
Your question seems a bit odd:- If it was a letter he wrote why would he call himself an extremist and if he did how could he be affronted by it.
King was mostly upset about racial injustices and overall racism in a Letter from Birmingham Jail. He was jailed simply because he was marching.
He wrote the letter. Didn't get it.
Birmingham Jail Letter
Letter from Birmingham Jail was written on the 16th of April 1963
He wrote a book
He was with a Police who was on his side
Martin Luther King wrote down what he believed in and what he wanted to achieve during the civil rights campaign in his letter from birmingham jail in 1963
non-violant
Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote the letter from Birmingham Jail on April 16, 1963 in the margins of a newspaper while incarcerated. He was arrested for his nonviolent protest of Birmingham's segregated city government and downtown retailers. The letter outlines the goals of his movement and is directed at eight white Alabama clergymen who released a statement calling him an outsider and troublemaker.
Your question seems a bit odd:- If it was a letter he wrote why would he call himself an extremist and if he did how could he be affronted by it.
(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
Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote the letter from Birmingham Jail on April 16, 1963 in the margins of a newspaper while incarcerated. He was arrested for his nonviolent protest of Birmingham's segregated city government and downtown retailers. The letter outlines the goals of his movement and is directed at eight white Alabama clergymen who released a statement calling him an outsider and troublemaker.
On 12 April 1963, city officials issued a court injunction to prohibit the civil rights marches that were going on in Birmingham. Not to beaten, King lead a peaceful march and was arrested along with his fellow marchers. King was placed in solitary confinement for eight days and wrote the famous "Letter From Birmingham Jail" He said that he would go to jail and he would go do so on a good Friday. On April 12 he was sent to a Birmingham jail and that was where he wrote the famous essay "Letter From Birmingham." He used toilet papers and the sides of the newspaper to answer the letter he got from a Priest, the letter was than published as an essay. king went to jail because he disobeyed the laws