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Why was MLK arrested in Birmingham? Summarize what he says in his “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”.

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In 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested and sent to jail because he and others were protesting the treatment of blacks in Birmingham, Alabama. A court had ordered that King could not hold protests in Birmingham.

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