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The Watsons Go To Birmingham—1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis

“Letter from Birmingham City Jail” by Martin Luther King Jr., 1963.

“Letter from Birmingham City Jail” by Martin Luther King Jr., 1963.

Citation Information: “Letter from Birmingham City Jail,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/356f3e56d09c5a8aa3da628e6844822b.

Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.

Courtesy of University of Memphis Libraries Special Collections Department via Digital Library of Georgia.

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“Letter from Birmingham City Jail” by Martin Luther King Jr., 1963.

A 2006 photograph of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.

A photograph of policemen outside the shattered stained-glass window of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, 1963.

Excerpts from Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) records from 1972 regarding the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church.

A newsclip of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. presenting the four demands of the civil rights movement in Birmingham, Alabama, May 5, 1963.

A newsclip from May 8, 1963 in which President John F. Kennedy expresses satisfaction with the resolution of racial conflicts in Birmingham.

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