A Letter of Hope for Today - Bryan Hudson’s Commentary on Rev. Dr. King’s Letter from the Birmingham Jail

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In April 1963, Martin Luther King was jailed in Birmingham, Alabama, after he defied a state court’s injunction and led a march of Black protesters without a permit, urging an Easter boycott of white-owned stores. A statement published in The Birmingham News, written by eight moderate white clergymen, criticized the march and other demonstrations. 

This prompted King to write a lengthy response, begun in the margins of the newspaper. He smuggled it out with the help of his lawyer, and the nearly 7,000 words were transcribed.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/02/letter-from-a-birmingham-jail/552461/