Today In History, April 16: `Letter from Birmingham Jail`
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On April 16, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his `Letter from Birmingham Jail` in which the civil rights activist responded to a group of local clergymen who had criticized him for leading street protests; King defended his tactics, writing, `Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.` In 1947, at the South Carolina statehouse, financier Bernard M. Baruch declared: `Let us not be deceived - we are today in the midst of a cold war.` ......