Stone Soup Leadership Institute

Letter from a Birmingham Jail
In this story, Andrew Young remembers a turning point for his close friend, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and for the Civil Rights movement in America. Dr. King, often cautious and reluctant, finally accepts the responsibility of being a leader, even going to jail – as an act of civil disobedience, protesting the injustice towards his people. From his jail cell he wrote his famous “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” explaining his goal of creating nonviolent social change which launched the movement worldwide.