History of the United States II / Unit 14 USH2 1980 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Letter from Birmingham Jail
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The idea
King was arrested in Birmingham on April twelfth, nineteen sixty-three, Digital History records; the anchor says Easter Sunday.
In practice
King writing on toilet paper and in newspaper margins, Digital History records.
Where people slip
Answering White clergymen who urged patience, King argued that African Americans had waited more than three hundred years for their rights; the time for waiting was over, the anchor says.
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