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Blessed Are the Peacemakers: Martin Luther King, Jr., Eight White Religious Leaders, and the “Letter from Birmingham Jail”

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Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” is arguably a very powerful written document of the civil rights protest era and a widely read brand new literary classic. For my part addressed to eight white Birmingham clergymen who sought to keep away from violence by publicly discouraging King’s civil rights demonstrations in Birmingham, the nationally published “Letter” captured the essence of the struggle for racial equality and provided a blistering critique of the gradualist method to racial justice. It soon become a part of American folklore, and the image of King penning his epistle from a prison cell remains a few of the most moving of the era. Yet as S. Jonathan Bass explains within the first comprehensive history of King’s “Letter,” this image and the piece’s literary appeal conceal a a lot more complex tale.

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