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Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” is arguably the most important written document of the civil rights protest era and a widely read modern literary classic. Personally addressed to eight white Birmingham clergy who sought to avoid violence by publicly discouraging King’s civil rights demonstrations in Birmingham, the nationally published “Letter” captured the essence of the struggle for racial equality and provided a blistering critique of the gradualist approach to racial justice. It soon became part of American folklore, and the image of King penning his epistle from a prison cell remains among the most moving of the era. Yet, as S. Jonathan Bass explains in the first comprehensive history of King’s “Letter,” this image and the piece’s literary appeal conceal a much more complex tale. ....

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Paul Ortiz: Learning civic engagement in the heartland of America

As the director of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, I have been taking University of Florida students to the Mississippi Delta every summer since 2008 to study the origins and legacies of the modern civil rights movement. Up until 2020 when the global pandemic put a temporary halt to our fieldwork students would pile into vans armed with digital audio and video recorders, interview guides and business-casual clothing appropriate for mid-July in the sweltering Delta heat.
After a 12-hour drive from Gainesville to one of several small towns located near the mighty Mississippi River, students would begin the process of getting acclimated to the region that historian James C. Cobb famously called “the most southern place on earth.” ....

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