1963 Newspaper Foreshadows Martin Luther King's Arrest

The Detroit News. Saturday, April 13, 1963. Measures 23.5 x 14.5 inches. 22 pages. Front page story on the growing civil rights movement in Birmingham titled "Call Negro Students to Join Protest." Story reads in part, "Negro students are being asked to help continue racial demonstrations in this industrial city. Sixty persons, including integration leader Martin Luther King, were arrested in a so-called freedom march yesterday. Some 1,000 Negroes followed the procession led by Dr. King...he called a meeting of Negro students today, but declined to reveal any plans except 'they can learn more in five days in Birmingham jails than they can in five months (truncated) in segregated schools." King would be arrested 3 days later. A small piece on a front page dominated by news of Congressional deadlock, Easter services and contaminated tuna, the article tips a story that would change the course of American history as King's Letter From Birmingham jail became an undeniable rallying cry for the civil rights movement. Toning to edges does not affect text or images. Ex libris with stamps. Overall very good condition. (Inventory #: 18318)