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I. Artifact Name
Letter from a Birmingham Jail

II. Image
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III. Event Represented by the Artifact/Significance
//(excerpted from the book// Free At Last: The U.S. Civil Rights Movement, //published by the Bureau of International Information Programs. View [|the entire book] (PDF, 3.6 MB).) Accessed 7-08-09 .// "As King languished in his jail cell, he produced one of the most extraordinary documents in the history of American thought. A number of local white clergymen, themselves friendly to King’s long-term objectives, disagreed with his short-term tactics. They published a public statement calling the King-led demonstrations “unwise and untimely,” and they opposed King’s civil disobedience “however technically peaceful those actions may be.” "King’s reply was the //Letter From Birmingham Jail//. Lacking writing paper, he scribbled in the margins of a newspaper page. King’s handwritten words wrapped around the pest control ads and garden club news, recalled the King aide who smuggled the newsprint out of the jail. Yet those margins held a powerful condemnation of inaction in the face of injustice, and they displayed an extraordinary faith that in America the cause of freedom necessarily would prevail."

IV. Date and Place
April 16, 1963 at the city jail in Birmingham, Alabama

V. Multimedia Found on the Internet
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VI. Original Multimedia
http://gallery.me.com/blakej78/100902 check out this link~

VII. Map
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VIII. Curators
(Sara M; Ira T,John B, Pam P, Ginger B)

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