Martin Luther King’s Letter From Birmingham Jail

Though he wrote it a week earlier, today is the anniversary of the publishing of Reverend Martin Luther’s King’s “Letter From A Birmingham Jail”.  Last week Jamaal Bell, Director of Communications at Kirwan Institute at Ohio State, shared with me this video that he directed and gave me permission to share.  It’s fantastic.  Here’s the info from the Vimeo page:

FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY a non-fiction film commemorating Martin Luther King, Jr.‘s famous “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” No longer will the Letter from Birmingham Jail be in the SHADOW of the “I Have a Dream” speech.

The film stars community leaders of Columbus, Ohio and educators and leaders of The Ohio State University. The Letter from Birmingham Jail is an open letter written on April 16, 1963, by Martin Luther King, Jr. The letter defends the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racial discrimination, arguing that people have a moral responsibility to break unjust laws. After an early setback, it enjoyed widespread publication and became a key text for the American civil rights movement of the early 1960s.

HOST A SCREENING OR GET THE DVD @ kirwaninstitute.osu.edu

PLEASE LEAVE REACTIONS TO THE FILM IN THE COMMENT SECTION ON ITS VIMEO PAGE. THANKS!

The film is approximately 56 minutes.

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