A Call for Unity
1963 OPEN LETTER AND EVENT IN THE US CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
A Call For Unity
"A Call for Unity" was an open letter published in Birmingham, Alabama, on April 12, 1963, by eight local white clergymen in response to civil rights demonstrations taking place in the area at the time. In the letter, they took issue with events "directed and led in part by outsiders," and they urged activists to engage in local negotiations and to use the courts if rights were being denied, rather than to protest.