In at least 150 words, discuss the civil rights movement in America as described in Martin Luther King Jr. in "Letter from Birmingham Jail."

The civil rights movement was a struggle by African Americans in the mid-1950s to late 1960s to achieve Civil Rights equal to those of whites, including equal opportunity in employment, housing, and education, as well as the right to vote, the right of equal access to public facilities, and the right to be free of ...