{"id":362,"date":"2014-02-26T00:00:04","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T00:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=362"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:51:19","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:51:19","slug":"feb-26-an-inescapable-network-of-mutuality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2014\/02\/26\/feb-26-an-inescapable-network-of-mutuality\/","title":{"rendered":"Feb 26 – “an inescapable network of mutuality”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday, February 26 \u00a0– \u00a0Martin Luther King Jr<\/p>\n

February nears its end. \u00a0At UDM, this month has seen a remarkable array of events organized by a group lead by Dorothy Stewart (Student Affairs). The group chose Martin Luther King Jr’s expression “Beloved Community” for its theme. \u00a0The M&I listserve has taken part in these events by dedicating Wednesday posts to “Beloved Community” texts. \u00a0\u00a0We have also used the Thursday post to put a light on the poetry of Dudley Randall in this 100th anniversary year of his birth.<\/p>\n

Today’s post from MLK’s “Letter from Birmingham City Jail” and February guest-editor Professor Rosemary Weatherston’s Dudley Randall posts tomorrow and Friday complete what has been a first for the M&I list, a thematic thread running through an entire month. \u00a0I want to thank Dorothy Stewart and her committee and Professor Weatherston \u00a0for enriching M&I’s February \u00a0by connecting with the “Beloved Community” campus-wide effort and by helping celebrate Dudley Randall, whose work as a UofD librarian resulted in our Library being named a National Literary Landmark. \u00a0 \u00a0More about Dudley Randall tomorrow.<\/p>\n

Today’s post – Martin Luther King Jr \u00a0— \u00a0\u00a0\u201cLetter from Birmingham City Jail,\u201d 1963<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Have a good day.<\/p>\n

john sj<\/p>\n

p.s. \u00a0 \u00a0I’ve followed the MLK text with a couple paragraphs from Wikipedia and a photo of the MLK statue on the Mall<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Birmingham Campaign<\/a>\u00a0began on April 3, 1963, with coordinated marches and sit-ins against\u00a0racism<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0racial segregation<\/a>\u00a0inBirmingham<\/a>,\u00a0Alabama<\/a>. The\u00a0non-violent<\/a>\u00a0campaign was coordinated by\u00a0Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights<\/a>\u00a0and King’sSouthern Christian Leadership Conference<\/a>. On April 10, Circuit Judge W. A. Jenkins issued a blanket injunction against “parading, demonstrating, boycotting, trespassing and picketing”. Leaders of the campaign announced they would disobey the ruling.[1]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0On April 12, King was roughly arrested with\u00a0Ralph Abernathy<\/a>,\u00a0Fred Shuttlesworth<\/a>\u00a0and other marchers\u2014while thousands of African Americans dressed for\u00a0Good Friday<\/a>\u00a0looked on.[2]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

. . . .<\/p>\n

King met with unusually harsh conditions in the Birmingham jail.[3]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0An ally smuggled in a newspaper from April 12, which contained “A Call for Unity<\/a>“: a statement made by eight white Alabama clergymen against King and his methods.[2]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0The letter provoked King and he began to write a response on the newspaper itself. King writes in\u00a0Why We Can’t Wait<\/em>: \u201cBegun on the margins of the newspaper in which the statement appeared while I was in jail, the letter was continued on scraps of writing paper supplied by a friendly black\u00a0trusty<\/a>, and concluded on a pad my attorneys were eventually permitted to leave me.\u201d[4]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

A 1999 study found that the\u00a0essay<\/a>\u00a0was highly\u00a0anthologized<\/a>\u00a0in that it was reprinted 50 times in 325 editions of 58 readers published between 1964 and 1996 that were intended for use in\u00a0college<\/a>-levelcomposition courses<\/a>.[14]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

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