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Letter from Birmingham Jail
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 51 mins
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Summary
Audie Award Finalist, Original Work, 2013
April 16th, the year is 1963. Birmingham, Alabama, has had a spring of nonviolent protests known as the Birmingham Campaign, seeking to draw attention to the segregation against Blacks by the city government and downtown retailers. The organizers longed to create a nonviolent tension so severe that the powers that be would be forced to address the rampant racism head on. Recently arrested was Martin Luther King, Jr....
It is there in that jail cell that he writes this letter; on the margins of a newspaper he pens this defense of nonviolence against segregation. His accusers, though many, in this case were not the White racist leaders or retailers he protested against, but eight Black men who saw him as "other" and as too extreme. To them and to the world he defended the notion that "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere".
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- Arlene Finnigan
- 23-01-19
Essential civil rights reading
A vital historical document and a powerful, eloquent argument for non-violent direct action. Essential reading for anyone interested in the history of the civil rights movement. Excellent narration too.
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- Luke Wilkinson
- 18-06-20
Essential BLM listening
As relevant now as it was then. if you're not willing to give 51 minutes to this to try learn why the BLM movement matters then you don't care whether you're prejudice or not
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- Hollie Rowland
- 15-01-21
incredible and crucial listening
listened to fill a critical gap in my knowledge and was in a almost trance. excellent
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