"One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that 'an unjust law is no law at all.'" — Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 1963
The Birmingham campaign that produced this letter was led by which organization?
- Acheck_circle
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
- B
The Nation of Islam
- C
The Black Panther Party
- D
The Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
Explanation
King co-founded SCLC in 1957, and it organized the 1963 Birmingham campaign with local leader Fred Shuttlesworth's Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights.