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Why did Martin Luther King Jr. travel to Birmingham, Alabama ?

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He was arrested and sent to jail because he and others were protesting the treatment of blacks in Birmingham, Alabama.

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Just being in Birmingham in 1963 was a hard place for blacks to live in. Everything was segregated, from businesses to churches to libraries.

User Oguz Ozgul
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Because it had a reputation as the most segregated city in the South

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