MLK’s jail letter, 2011
Next week marks the 25th anniversary of America’s commemoration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, while today is the 82nd anniversary of his birth. I believe that one of MLK’s greatest works is his “Letter from the Birmingham Jail,” dated April 16, 1963. This seminal writing established the moral foundations of Natural Law as the basis for the Constitution and eloquently connected it to the non-violent civil-rights demonstrations of the Birmingham campaign.
King’s letter was a reply to an open letter “A Call For Unity,” signed by eight white clergymen of Birmingham published in the Birmingham News on the day he was arrested. The “Call For Unity” was critical of the protests and provocative acts organized in Birmingham by “outsiders” and urged more tolerance, moderation and respect for the law as the courts slowly removed the most overt injustices of segregation. …
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