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Gospel of Freedom: Martin Luther King’s Letter from Birmingham Jail and The Struggle That Changed A Nation

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Scholar Jonathan Rieder delves deeper than anyone before into the “Letter” –illuminating both its timeless message and its crucial position in the history of civil rights. Rieder has interviewed King’s surviving colleagues and located rare audiotapes of King speaking in the mass meetings of 1963.

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By Jonathan Rieder (hardcover)

“I am in Birmingham because injustice is here,” declared Martin Luther King, Jr. He had come to that city of racist terror convinced that massive protest could topple Jim Crow. But the insurgency faltered. To revive it, King made a sacrificial act on Good Friday, April 12, 1963: he was arrested. Alone in his cell, reading a newspaper, he found a statement from eight “moderate” clergymen who branded the protests extremist and “untimely.”

King drafted a furious rebuttal that emerged as the “Letter from Birmingham Jail” –a work that would take its place among the masterpieces of American moral argument alongside those of Thoreau and Lincoln.

Scholar Jonathan Rieder delves deeper than anyone before into the “Letter” –illuminating both its timeless message and its crucial position in the history of civil rights. Rieder has interviewed King’s surviving colleagues and located rare audiotapes of King speaking in the mass meetings of 1963.

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