Gospel of Freedom Martin Luther King, Jr. 's Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation

Name: Gospel of Freedom Martin Luther King, Jr. 's Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation
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ISBN: 9781620400593

ISBN-10: 1620400596

ISBN-13: 9781620400593

Edition: 2014

Authors: Jonathan Rieder

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"I am in Birmingham because injustice is here," declared Martin Luther King, Jr. He had come to that city of racist terror convinced that massive protest could topple Jim Crow. But the insurgency faltered. To revive it, King made a sacrificial act on Good Friday, April 12, 1963: he was arrested. Alone in his cell, reading a newspaper, he found a statement from eight "moderate" clergymen who branded the protests extremist and "untimely."King drafted a furious rebuttal that emerged as the "Letter from Birmingham Jail"-a work that would take its place among the masterpieces of American moral argument alongside those of Thoreau and Lincoln. His insistence on the urgency of "Freedom Now" would…

Book details

List price: $18.99
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 4/8/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.55" wide x 8.25" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English