Martin Luther King Jr.\'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail" is arguably the most important written document of the civil rights protest era and a widely read modern literary classic.
Personally addressed to Eight White Birmingham clergy who sought to avoid violence by publicly discouraging King\'s civil rights demonstrations in Birmingham, the nationally published "Letter" captured the essence of the struggle for racial equality and provided a blistering critique of the gradualist approach to racia.
Martin Luther King Jr.\'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail" is arguably the most important written document of the civil rights protest era and a widely read modern literary classic