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Martin Luther King Jr.'s Jail Cell Door:
This is a bronze casting of the jail cell door that imprisoned civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in Birmingham, Ala., in April 1963 after he was arrested for protesting segregation. King's leadership opened doors for a new generation of activists to enter the civil rights struggle. During his eight days in jail, King used scraps of paper smuggled into his cell to write his classic defense of civil disobedience, "Letter From Birmingham Jail." |