Letter From A Birmingham Jail

January 17, 2005

While confined to a jail cell in Birmingham for his protests and demonstrations against segregation, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote a letter to a group of local clergy members who criticized his actions as "unwise and untimely." In what is now considered one of the most eloquent defenses of nonviolent citizen action, King wrote that there is no "more convenient season" for justice.  King's words are as true—and as necessary—today as they were in 1963.  SEE THE LETTER