(BACKGROUND CONVERSATION] TONE THE QUESTION IS—TALK TO KELLY IF YOU WOULD—PART OF A MOMENT AND NOT JUST AN INDIVIDUAL?

Yeah, I think that's… I said from the very beginning that we… we left New York because we felt that we were being called down there by a movement. And ah, I didn't know what I was going to do. I didn't know what my role would be. I really wanted to write. Ah, and I thought that by writing and recalling this history, I understood that this was something that was going to change America. I really thought it would fail. I mean my background is theology, and theological movements have a way of failing K. and then people understanding what they're all about ten, fifteen years later. This one was fortunate enough to have succeeded in our lifetime, far beyond our imagination.

That became inown as "The Letter from the Birmingham Jail."

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