He wrote his letter four days later from the Birmingham city jail. That teaching was particularly apparent in the open letter King wrote to his followers after being arrested for defying a court order not to lead a protest in Birmingham on Good Friday, April 12, 1965. “Even though some are guilty of injustice, all of us are responsible for responding to injustice,” she said.
Heschel went on to say that her father, who is generally recognized as one of the most important Jewish thinkers of the 20th century, considered the words of the prophets as a Divine command that charges us to be responsible for one another. King and my father both understood, is that the message of the prophets is that God is full of passion and responds to us and God cares about us and God feels our suffering and feels that with us.”ĭr. Get The AJT Newsletter by email and never miss our top stories He made the Hebrew Bible, “the central text of the civil rights movement,” she said. She mentions how her father’s writing, particularly his well-known volume on the ancient Hebrew prophets profoundly influenced King.
Heschel is a Jewish Studies professor at Dartmouth College and an important figure in her own right. One such protest resulted in one of America’s most famous letters – King’s letter from Birmingham city jail.Dr. Perhaps most well-known for his “I Have A Dream” speech, King also organized groups, marches, and campaigns to protest racial injustice.
Countless books are written about him, streets and schools are named after him, monuments depicting him stand throughout our nation, and he is one of the few Americans commemorated by a national holiday. Posthumously, he is awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest awards U.S. Both a minister and civil rights activist, he fights racism and segregation through nonviolent means and receives a Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 for his efforts. One cannot speak about prejudice without speaking of the life and influence of Martin Luther King Jr. These words echo as true today as they did in his day. writes these famous words in a jail cell in Birmingham, Alabama, on April 16, 1963, roughly five years before he is assassinated.
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