Excerpt from logbook pages [two front and two back sides] bearing 12 signatures of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (shown at right), and five signatures of his associate and mentor Ralph Abernathy, signed during their 1963 incarceration at the Birmingham (Ala.) Jail. During that incarceration King produced his manifesto on non-violent civil disobedience known as “Letter From A Birmingham Jail.” Provenance: Salvaged by a Birmingham jail employee. Hake’s COA, JSA LOA. Opening bid: $10,000BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) – Arrested for leading a march against racial segregation in 1963, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. spent days in solitary confinement writing his “Letter From Birmingham Jail,” which was smuggled out and stirred the world by explaining why Black people couldn’t keep waiting for fair treatment. Meanwhile, items also were arriving at the jail for King.
