nonviolent demonstrations

Who Is The Letter From Birmingham Jail Addressed To?

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Who Is The Letter From Birmingham Jail Addressed To? (1963) A letter that Martin Luther King, Jr., addressed to his fellow clergymen while he was in jail in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963, after a nonviolent protest against racial segregation (see also sit-ins). Who is the audience for the letter from Birmingham Jail? In “Letters from

What Was The Outcome Of The Birmingham Campaign?

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What Was The Outcome Of The Birmingham Campaign? Led by Martin Luther King Jr., James Bevel, Fred Shuttlesworth and others, the campaign of nonviolent direct action culminated in widely publicized confrontations between young black students and white civic authorities, and eventually led the municipal government to change the city’s discrimination laws. Was the Birmingham campaign