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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Christian minister and civil rights activist in the 1950s and 1960s. He led the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), which used nonviolent direct action to peacefully protest the legal segregation of African American people in the United States.

In 1963, King and the SCLC were invited by a civil rights organization in Alabama to organize a protest in Birmingham, where African American residents faced constant discrimination and violence. During the protest, King was arrested. From jail, he wrote his "Letter from Birmingham Jail."

Place the following events from the Birmingham protests in order.

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In April, activists launch their protests with a series of sit-ins, boycotts of downtown businesses, mass meetings, and marches.

King, local pastor Ralph Abernathy, and other civil rights activists disobey the injunction and are arrested and jailed in Birmingham.

While in jail, King writes his letter on pieces of scrap paper, which are smuggled out of his cell. He is released four days later, on April 20.

In January 1963, King is invited to organize protests in Birmingham.

In response to the protests, the city government obtains an injunction, meaning the state court forces the civil rights activists to stop.

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