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Injustice and the "Letter from Birmingham Jail" (with Dwayne Betts) | EconTalk podcast - Listen or read transcript on Metacast

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Injustice and the "Letter from Birmingham Jail" (with Dwayne Betts)

Jun 03, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Ep 948•Transcript available on Metacast

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When poet, lawyer, and MacArthur Fellow Dwayne Betts was imprisoned for nine years at the age of 16 for carjacking, he only wept twice. One of those times was when he read Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail." In this powerful conversation with EconTalk's Russ Roberts, Betts explains why he cried, what he learned from King, King's urgency in the face of injustice, and Betts's thoughts on writing the introduction to a new volume of King's letter.