The African American Civil Rights Movement (1960s)

AP US History· difficulty 3/5

"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?

  • A

    The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

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  • 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.

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