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“Letter from a Birmingham Jail” King’s life in jail is at great risk, many believed this would be the end of King. King dictated a letter to his friend, during his time in prison, twenty-pages were written in secrecy. “We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly, I have yet to engage in a direct-action campaign that was "well timed" in the view of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation. For years now I have heard the word "Wait!" It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This "Wait" has almost always meant 'Never." We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that "justice too long delayed is justice denied." “Perhaps it is easy for those who have never felt the stinging dark of segregation to say, "Wait." But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim; when you have seen hate-filled policemen curse, kick and even kill your black brothers and sisters; when you see the vast majority of your twenty million Negro brothers smothering in an airtight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society;…”

The Montgomery Bus Boycott December 1, 1955: Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. She was arrested a place in jail. Parks was a member of the NAACP