Letter from Birmingham Jail

Name: Letter from Birmingham Jail
Brand: Christianaudio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.83 (6 reviews)
Author: Martin Luther King Jr.
ISBN: 9781610457491

Author: Martin Luther King Jr.

Narrator: Martin Luther King Jr.

Unabridged: 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Mission Audio

Published: 04/15/2013

Categories: Nonfiction, History, Us History, Modern History, Political Science, Civil Rights

Synopsis

April 16th. The year is 1963. Birmingham, Alabama has had a spring of non-violent protests known as the Birmingham Campaign, seeking to draw attention to the segregation against blacks by the city government and downtown retailers. The organizers longed to create a non-violent tension so severe that the powers that be would be forced to address the rampant racism head on. Recently arrested was Martin Luther King, Jr.. It is there in that jail cell that he writes this letter; on the margins of a newspaper he pens this defense of non-violence against segregation. His accusers, though many, in this case were not the white racist leaders or retailers he protested against, but 8 black men who saw him as “other” and as too extreme. To them and to the world he defended the notion that “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”.

About Martin Luther King Jr.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968), civil rights leader and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Peace, inspired and sustained the struggle for freedom, nonviolence, interracial brotherhood, and equality.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lisa of Troy on February 24, 2025

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere In August 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr was arrested for parading without a permit. This is a letter that he wrote while serving time in the Birmingham Jail. Dr. King stated that he was invited to Birmingham, and “I am in Birmingham because injustice......more

Goodreads review by Christy on January 16, 2017

This "Birmingham jail" letter by MLK, Jr. and the UN Declaration of Human Rights are the only two "required readings" across all sections of Global Ethics at my college. Today we can recall the now famous lines: "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable n......more

Goodreads review by Dave on March 11, 2022

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny." Here’s the full letter: [URL not allowed]......more

Goodreads review by Debbie "DJ" on April 01, 2015

The perfect day to read Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's address to the eight white clergymen who called his activities in Birmingham "unwise & untimely. Dr. King has an extraordinary ability with words be they in speaking or writing. This impassioned response is one I will not forget. I do find it terri......more

Goodreads review by Lance on January 26, 2016

I have a reputation for writing powerful, effective letters, and I am proud to say that I have successfully fought for the rights of many individuals against the bigger society who have attempted to repress them. However, this letter is many leagues above any letter that I have ever written! It is i......more