What are you doing Tuesday? MLK Letters from Birmingham Jail

I hope you will reflect upon the immortal words of Dr. Martin Luther King as he sat in the Birmingham jail protesting the lack of equality for African Americans and ALL people.  Tuesday, April 16th will mark the 50th

Anniversary and people all over the world will be reading his words and hopefully understand what he was saying.  How can you be ‘good’ when you stand by while others suffer and do absolutely nothing but tell them to wait???  How long must those treated as if they are less should be patient to be recognized and treated with dignity?

I won’t say that I’ve gone out protesting and been beaten bloody by the police.  Nor have I ever walked a day in the shoes of my Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual and Transgender brothers and sisters.  I don’t know what it’s like to be illegal and fear the knock on the door.  But I try to do my part in deed where I am willing to sign my name, have volunteered, donated money (not a lot but what I had) and refused to support business who do not treat my fellow humans with the respect they deserve.  I know I can and should do more but I’m going to start on Tuesday to reflect that we all haven’t arrived at the mountain but one day we ALL will be their equal not separate but the same under the eyes of whatever God you worship or how you think since we are all living under the same sun, breathing the same air and walking the same earth.

This Month in the Movement: Fiftieth Anniversary of the Letter from Birmingham Jail

This month marks the fiftieth anniversary of one of Dr. King’s most celebrated and studied epistles, the Letter from Birmingham Jail. Released on 16 April 1963, King composed the letter from his prison cell in Birmingham, Ala. in response to local white religious leader’s criticisms at the height of the 1963 Birmingham Campaign.

For more information on the letter and events surrounding its publication, make sure to visit the following resources:

Letter from Birmingham Jail, text

Letter from Birmingham Jail, King Online Encyclopedia entry

Birmingham Campaign (1963), King Online Encyclopedia entry

Children’s Crusade, King Online Encyclopedia entry

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