“You suddenly find your tongue twisted... as you seek to explain to your six year old daughter why she can't go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her eyes when she is told that Funtown is closed to colored children.”
Written April 16, 1963, from a Birmingham jail cell on the margins of a newspaper, King's letter is the most eloquent defense of nonviolent protest ever written. The Funtown passage is a father passage — the specific, heartbreaking moment of having to explain injustice to a child whose eyes haven't yet learned to hide pain.
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