Reverends Abernathy & King Leave Jail

American religious and Civil Rights leaders Reverends Ralph Abernathy (1926 - 1990) (center left) and Dr Martin Luther King Jr (1929 - 1968) (center right) smile and greet supports as they as released from jail, Birmingham, Alabama, April 20, 1963. King had been arrested, along other demonstrators including Abernathy and Fred Shuttlesworth, during the Birmingham Campaign (a series of pro-integration marches and events) and, while imprisoned, had penned the influential 'Letter from a Birmingham Jail,' partly on scraps of paper and partly on a notepad provided by his attorney (who included Orzell Billingsley). (Photo by Chris McNair/Getty Images)