Advertisement50 Years Later, King's Birmingham 'Letter' Still ResonatesApril 15, 2013Kathy LohrfacebookEmailMartin Luther King Jr., with the Rev. Ralph Abernathy (center) and the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, defied an injunction against protesting on Good Friday in 1963. They were arrested and held in solitary confinement in the Birmingham jail where King wrote his famous "Letter From Birmingham Jail." (Courtesy of Birmingham Public Library Archives)