I saw that Anna Deavere Smith had given a reading recently in Los Angeles of Martin Luther King's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" and realized I had never read that letter.
King was in jail when he read an op-ed piece in a local paper, written and signed by a number of ministers and rabbis, criticizing his actions in open protest to segregation and racial injustice.
In three parts, today and within the next several days, here are some of Martin Luther King's still powerful words:
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