Stanford University The Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute
King and Abernathy are arrested in Birmingham, Alabama
April 12, 1963

King and Ralph Abernathy are arrested for violating a state circuit court injunction against protests, after having led a march the same day. King is placed in solitary confinement in the Birmingham jail where he will soon write "Letter From Birmingham Jail."

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