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letter from the birmingham jail  

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  • Letter From the Birmingham Jail by Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., was provoked by a major demonstration in Birmingham. In the summer of 1962, Fred Shuttlesworth attempted to desegregate local businesses in Birmingham, Alabama. [Source: Encyclopedia of Black Studies; Letter from the Birmingham Jail]

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