Tag: Birmingham

Rereading “Letter from Birmingham Jail”

He explains that the SCLC chapter in Birmingham asked him to come, “So I, along with several members of my staff, am here because I was invited here. I am here because I have organizational ties here.” Dr. King’s educated and authoritative tone sends a message. And he mentions m...

Rereading “Letter from Birmingham Jail”

People always want to bring up the “I Have a Dream” speech on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, but I’ve never been able to read that one through. More eloquent to my mind is the open letter he wrote to white church leaders from Birmingham Jail, where he’d been imprisoned...