On April 12, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and nearly 50 other protestors and civil rights leaders were arrested after leading a Good Friday demonstration as part of the Birmingham Campaign, designed to bring national attention to the brutal, racist treatment suffered by blacks in one of the most segregated cities in America Birmingham, Alabama.
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To celebrate the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday, many of us return to his writing and public remarks. We listen to “I Have a Dream” or “I've Been to the Mountaintop.” But Dr. King’s advocacy and legacy is much more complicated and nuanced than his two most popular sermons, Leon Smith and Dr. Tasia Cerezo tell Cognoscenti.