Location: Kansas City Public Library, Plaza Branch, Small Meeting Room
Address: 4801 Main Street, Kansas City, MO
Date: January 30, 2015
Time: 7:00 PM
Here's a link to text of Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King:
http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html
Here's a link to an excerpt from "Parting the Waters" by Taylor Branch that discusses the writing of Letter from Birmingham Jail:
http://greatbookskcdiscussion.blogspot.com/2015/01/excerpt-from-parting-waters-by-taylor.html
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The following is from my PageADay Book Lover's Calendar for today. "Letter from Birmingham Jail," is only 10 pages long. If you want to read more, consider reading the following book:
Martin Luther King Jr. came to Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963, convinced that massive protests could topple Jim Crow. But the movement failed, and to revive it, King allowed himself to be arrested. While he was in his cell, he read a newspaper article written by eight clergymen who objected to the protests. King drafted an indignant rebuttal that became the "Letter from Birmingham Jail," which would take its place among works by Thoreau and Lincoln as a signpost of moral argument. Scholar Jonathan Rieder provides a fresh and startling perspective on both the letter and the man who wrote it.
GOSPEL OF FREEDOM: MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.'S LETTER FROM BIRMINGHAM JAIL AND THE STRUGGLE THAT CHANGED A NATION, by Jonathan Rieder (Bloomsbury, 2013)
Report on Meeting:
Fourteen people were in attendance at our meeting on January 30, 2015 to discuss Letter from a Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King. Those in attendance included Tim Thurman, Tim Lavine, Karen Hostetler, Bernard Norcott/Mahany, Marty Hattan, Tom Brown, Jan Carter, Ruth Evans, Ed Doering, Don Pepper, Janet Weiblen, June Seat, Leroy Seat, and Clif Hostetler.
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