Apr 16 2009
Subversive Historian – 04/16/09
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“Letter from Birmingham Jail”
Back in the day on April 16th, 1963, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. composed his masterful “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” The civil rights leader had been imprisoned following his anti-segregation “Birmingham Campaign,” in Alabam that breached a court injunction disallowing such demonstrations in the city. Because King’s campaign practiced civil disobedience …
“Letter from Birmingham Jail”
Back in the day on April 16th, 1963, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. composed his masterful “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” The civil rights leader had been imprisoned following his anti-segregation “Birmingham Campaign,” in Alabam that breached a court injunction disallowing such demonstrations in the city. Because King’s campaign practiced civil disobedience …
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Award-winning Chicana playwright, poet and artist Josefina López presents her much awaited first novel “Hungry Woman in Paris” and a brand new play “When Nature Calls.” Best known as the co-author of the acclaimed “Real Women Have Curves,” López, in her literary debut, tells the story of Canela Guerrero, a journalist who leaves the United …
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