MARTIN LUTHER KING Letter from Birmingham City Jail

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MARTIN LUTHER KING. Letter from Birmingham City Jail. 15, [1] pages including wrappers. 8vo, 9 x 6 inches, original illustrated wrappers, minimal wear and foxing. Philadelphia: American Friends Service Committee, May 1963

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First edition, first issue of the first separate publication of King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail." It was issued by the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker organization, and includes a one-page introduction praising this "eloquent expression of the nonviolent approach to restructuring of our social order." The 12 April 1963 letter by 8 Alabama clergymen which occasioned King's response is also appended. Later printings by the AFSC are so noted on the rear wrapper.