Door to MLK's Jail Cell -- Birmingham AL - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Waymarking.com

The Civil Rights Institute stands across the street from Kelly Ingram Park (site of some of the most horrifying violence against peaceful demonstrators by segregationist mobs and Birmingham city officials) and the 16th Street Baptist Church (site of the Klan bombing that killed 4 girls). Inside the Institute are interactive exhibits, oral histories, and relics of the civil rights era in Birmingham.

One of these relics is the actual cell door from the old Birmingham city jail, where Doctor Martin Luther King was imprisoned for a week in April 1963, and where he wrote his famous "Letter from a Birmingham Jail."

You can read that letter, written behind this door, here: (visit link)

For more on the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, see the website: (visit link)

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