![]() ![]() ![]() The letter was copied by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and mailed to other clergymen throughout the state. One of those recipients was Methodist minister Rev. While there, he wrote notes in the margins of the Birmingham News, reaching out to most of the eight white clergymen. Those notes, passed through a jail trustee and then to King’s lawyer, were transcribed by a secretary and compiled into a letter that would then be sent out to seven of the eight clergymen. The Kennedy administration intervened on his behalf, as his wife had recently given birth. King was arrested later that day and spent 9 days in the Birmingham City Jail, including time in solitary confinement. He wasn’t allowed to make a phone call. Martin Luther King Jr. was in Atlanta at the time and decided to travel to Birmingham to help mobilize the moderate movement. Eight white clergymen had just published an open letter April 12 in the Birmingham News urging restraint. Demonstrations and peaceful protests were met with violence. Rev. It was 1963 and the city of Birmingham was going through a racial revolution. ![]()
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