Why We Can't Wait, by Martin Luther King Jr.
Dr. King's account of the 1963 Birmingham nonviolent direct action campaign against segregated businesses is not really a historical or even a narrative work. Its purpose isn't to describe what happened. It is not addressed to people like me, sitting at a remove of fifty years from those events.
No, this book was published in 1963. It came right just a f…
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