![]() ![]() The city of Birmingham had obtained an injunction from the state forbidding anti-segregation protests, and King’s group was denied a parade permit. His arrest was triggered by a civil rights protest that he and several others had organized in Birmingham more than four years earlier. ![]() King spent three days in the cell in late October and early November 1967. The commission unanimously approved the resolution Thursday to memorialize the cell – the last existing one at the old Jefferson County Jail, Scales told CNN. “In order for Jefferson County to truly move forward, we must first recognize our past mistakes, take corrective action, and move forward with a sincere desire to embrace people from all walks of life,” said Jefferson County Commission President Pro Tem Lashunda Scales in a press release. was last held before his assassination in April 1968. ![]() The cell in the Jefferson County Jail in Birmingham where Martin Luther King, Jr. ![]()
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