Box 6623

Scope and Contents note From the Collection: Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his famous, "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," on April 16, 1963, after his arrest for violating Alabama’s law against mass public demonstrations. King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) joined with Fred Shuttlesworth’s Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR) for the Birmingham Campaign in April 1963 with the hopes of disrupting the system of segregation in the city by putting pressure on Birmingham merchants during the Easter season....