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Journal articles on the topic "Letter from Birmingham Jail (King, Martin Luther, Jr.)"

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Chenoweth, Erica. "A Discussion of Gospel of Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle that Changed a Nation By Jonathan Rieder." Perspectives on Politics 12, no. 3 (2014): 716–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1537592714001789.

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The U.S. civil rights movement was perhaps the most politically and symbolically important American social movement of the 20th century. And Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” was a central text of the movement, and arguably one of the most important political texts of the century. Jonathan Rieder’s Gospel of Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation offers a rich and sustained account of the role of King’s letter as a contribution to thinking about race and politics, religion and politics, civil disobedi
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Hornsby, Alton. "Martin Luther King, Jr. "Letter From a Birmingham Jail"." Journal of Negro History 71, no. 1-4 (1986): 38–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/jnhv71n1-4p38.

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Burrell, Kristopher Bryan. "The “Creative Extremism” of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Importance of Tension." Ethnic Studies Review 44, no. 1 (2021): 24–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/esr.2021.44.1.24.

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The author revisits Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham City Jail” from April of 1963 to better appreciate the “radical” King and his critique of the “moral” principles of white moderates within the context of the recent events of this past year.
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Hurd, Ian. "World Order from Birmingham Jail." Ethics & International Affairs 38, no. 2 (2024): 152–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0892679424000194.

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AbstractIn this essay, I use Martin Luther King Jr.'s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” to open questions about international order and disorder. The idea of order is central to modern discourse on international politics, but the concept is often ill defined and ambiguous. King's ideas clarify three issues: First, is order understood as an objective condition of a system or a political judgment about its suitability for social life? Second, does compliance with law lead naturally to order? And third, is order always preferable to disorder? The way King answers each question is somewhat different t
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Sen, Amartya. "Ethics and the Foundation of Global Justice." Ethics & International Affairs 31, no. 3 (2017): 261–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0892679417000193.

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Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., wrote in his Letter from Birmingham Jail: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” That was in April 1963, more than a half-century ago. He had been jailed for his agitation to end injustice against non-white people in his own country, and he would be killed soon after by an assassin who hated him and his vision.
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McClish, Glen. "The Instrumental and Constitutive Rhetoric of Martin Luther King Jr. and Frederick Douglass." Rhetorica 33, no. 1 (2015): 34–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/rh.2015.33.1.34.

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This study of the instrumental and constitutive rhetoric of Martin Luther King Jr.'s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” (1963) and Frederick Douglass's “Introduction” to The Reason Why the Colored American is not in the World's Columbian Exposition: The Afro-American's Contribution to Columbian Literature (1893) explores both the striking similarities between the rhetorical characteristics of the texts and their contrasting receptions. Whereas King's “Letter” took advantage of the powerful zeitgeist of the Civil Rights Movement, Douglass's “Introduction” was stymied by the oppressive climate of the
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Patton, John H. "A Transforming Response: Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail"." Rhetoric & Public Affairs 7, no. 1 (2004): 53–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/rap.2004.0028.

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Nielsen, Aldon Lynn. "A Note on Citizen Brown: Sterling A. Brown Writes to the Press." Langston Hughes Review 30, no. 1 (2024): 85–92. https://doi.org/10.5325/langhughrevi.30.1.0085.

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ABSTRACT Sterling Brown was an engaged citizen of his nation and of the District of Columbia, as revealed in his published and unpublished communications with news organizations. In telegrams to editors, and letters to major news magazines responding to southern agrarians, we see the public, political side of citizen Brown. This article on Sterling A. Brown is prefaced by a brief two-part commentary on his stature as a poet and scholar and his collection of papers as it existed at Howard University. Afterward the focus shifts to the politics surrounding the Evening Star’s rejection of a letter
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Lee, Ronald E. "The rhetorical construction of time in Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “letter from Birmingham jail”." Southern Communication Journal 56, no. 4 (1991): 279–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10417949109372839.

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Ernawati, Asih, and Riyatno Riyatno. "EXPLORING ETHICAL CONTINUITY: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF APOLOGY AND LETTER FROM BIRMINGHAM JAIL." DE FACTO : Journal Of International Multidisciplinary Science 2, no. 02 (2024): 87–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.62668/defacto.v2i02.1215.

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This article examines the enduring relevance of Socrates' "Apology" and Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail," highlighting their shared commitment to justice and ethical integrity despite the vast differences in their historical and socio-political contexts. Both texts employ powerful rhetorical strategies to advocate for truth and moral righteousness, challenging deeply ingrained societal injustices. Socrates, through his dialectical method, exposes the inconsistencies in his accusers' arguments, encouraging critical self-examination, while King, through logical reasoning an
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Luther, King Martin. Letter from Birmingham jail. Limited Editions Club, 2007.

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Luther, King Martin. Letter from the Birmingham jail. Harper San Francisco, 1994.

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King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., ed. Blessed are the peacemakers: Martin Luther King, Jr., eight white religious leaders, and the "Letter from Birmingham Jail". Louisiana State University Press, 2001.

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Tuggle, Melvin. Tuggle Books presents an analysis of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham jail, "Why we can't wait". Tuggle Books, 1996.

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Luther, King Martin, and Dion Graham. Letter from Birmingham Jail. Mission Audio, 2013.

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Luther, King Martin. Letter from Birmingham Jail. Penguin Books, Limited, 2018.

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Letter from the Birmingham Jail. Harpercollins, 1994.

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Luther, King Martin. Letter from the Birmingham jail. Scholargy, 2001.

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Letter from Birmingham City Jail. Penguin Books, Limited, 2018.

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Blessed Are the Peacemakers: Martin Luther King Jr., Eight White Religious Leaders, and the "Letter from Birmingham Jail". LSU Press, 2021.

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"Martin Luther King Jr.: “Letter from Birmingham Jail”." In Schlager Anthology of Black America. Schlager Group Inc., 2021. https://doi.org/10.3735/9781935306627.book-part-196.

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Written in April 1963, Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” delivered an important statement on civil rights and civil disobedience. The 1963 racial crisis in Birmingham, Alabama, was a critical turning point in the struggle for African American civil rights. Although King’s letter was not published until after the Birmingham crisis was resolved, it is widely regarded as the most important written document of the modern civil rights movement and a classic text on civil disobedience.
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"Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail”." In Milestone Documents in American History. Schlager Group Inc., 2020. https://doi.org/10.3735/9781935306528.book-part-139.

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In his “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” Martin Luther King Jr. delivered an important statement on civil rights and civil disobedience. The 1963 racial crisis in Birmingham, Alabama, was a critical turning point in the struggle for African American civil rights. Nonviolent protestors led by King faced determined opposition from hard-core segregationists. King and his organization, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), needed a victory to sustain the momentum of their movement. The integration of downtown stores and lunch counters was the primary focus of SCLC’s “Project C”—the “C”
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"Martin Luther King, Jr.: “Letter from Birmingham Jail” 1963." In Milestone Documents in African American History. Schlager Group Inc., 2010. https://doi.org/10.3735/9781935306153.book-part-093.

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In his “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered an important statement on civil rights and civil disobedience. The 1963 racial crisis in Birmingham, Alabama, was a critical turning point in the struggle for African American civil rights. Nonviolent protestors led by King faced determined opposition from hard-core segregationists. King and his organization, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), needed a victory to sustain the momentum of their movement. The integration of downtown stores and lunch counters was the primary focus of SCLC’s “Project C”—the “
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Johnson, Beverly A. "Dr. Martin Luther King Jr." In Dream and Legacy, Volume II. University Press of Mississippi, 2024. https://doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496852236.003.0013.

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This chapter explores Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dual role as a national civil rights leader and an absentee father, highlighting the complex interplay between his public accomplishments and personal sacrifices. While King's absence from his own family is often overshadowed by his profound impact on civil rights, his leadership provided a model of maturity and responsibility that can inspire young Black men. The chapter emphasizes the significance of Dr. King's “I Have a Dream” speech and “Letter from Birmingham Jail” in offering Black male college students insights into their own familial r
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"Southern Catholics, Martin Luther King, Jr., and “Letter from Birmingham Jail”." In Black, White, and Catholic. Vanderbilt University Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1622mx7.15.

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Clark, E. Culpepper. "The American Dilemma in King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail”." In Martin Luther King Jr. and the Sermonic Power of Public Discourse. University of Alabama Press, 2015. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.30347427.6.

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Hoover, Judith D. "Reconstruction of the Rhetorical Situation in “Letter from Birmingham Jail”." In Martin Luther King Jr. and the Sermonic Power of Public Discourse. University of Alabama Press, 2015. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.30347427.7.

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"54 MARTIN LUTHER KING JR., "Letter from Birmingham Jail-April 16, 1963"." In African American Religious History. Duke University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9780822396031-057.

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Lechtreck, Elaine Allen. "The Heart of the Movement." In Southern White Ministers and the Civil Rights Movement. University Press of Mississippi, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496817525.003.0003.

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The chapter reveals the violence associated with the Civil Rights Movement, the courage of African American activists (Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Medgar Evers) and the small minority of southern white ministers who joined them. In Montgomery, Alabama, Robert Graetz provided taxi service for demonstrators. Andrew Turnipseed paid the salary of James Love, who signed the Mobile bus petition, when his parishioners would not. No southern white minister would participate in freedom rides, but John Morris organized a Freedom Ride after the violence subsided. The group was arrested. Joseph Ellwan
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Jinkins, Michael. "Confessions: A Preface to Ecclesiology." In The Church Faces Death. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195128406.003.0006.

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Abstract On the sixteenth of April 1963, a young clergyman sat in the Birmingham, Alabama, city jail. He was there for leading a civil rights demonstration. As he sat in the cell that day, he wrote a letter that stands beside the Declaration of Independence, the Federalist Papers, and Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address as one of a handful of American documents that define and call into question our national character. The document also stands as a remarkable example of Christian theological reflection. The young minister: Martin Luther King, Jr. The document: the “Letter from Birmingham City Jail:’
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