![]() ![]() MARTIN: There are a number of lines from this letter that I think people instantly recognize. Thank you so much for joining us once again. He's a professor of history at Stanford University and he's with us once again. He is the director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. We thought this was a good time to take a closer look at that letter, so we've called upon, once again, Clayborne Carson. It was controversial at the time, but it's now recognized as an iconic statement of the principles underlying the civil rights movement. MARTIN: The full text of that letter was published in a number of news outlets, including the New York Post Sunday magazine and The Atlantic Monthly. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.: I can not sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. King reading part of the letter that he wrote in response. King penned this letter as a response to white clergymen who called his campaign of non-violent protests, quote, "unwise and untimely," unquote, and had urged him not to intervene in Alabama's segregationist policies. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s letter from Birmingham jail. ![]()
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