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Lost Draft of MLK’s Birmingham Letter Found | Washington DC News
A student intern at Virginia Theological Seminary stumbled upon an original draft of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter From Birmingham Jail” while researching archival materials — a rare, historically significant find confirmed by experts. Discovered earlier this year, the draft offers a raw, behind-the-scenes glimpse into one of the Civil Rights Movement’s most powerful documents, penned in 1963 while King was imprisoned. The seminary plans to preserve and eventually exhibit the artifact, adding depth to the legacy of this pivotal letter. The intern, Nick Gentry, who previously unearthed a…
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