USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -On Good Friday, 12 April, King was arrested in Birmingham after violating the anti-protest injunction and was kept in solitary confinement.

Detailed explanation-2: -Activists & Reformers Martin Luther King Jr. In 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested and sent to jail because he and others were protesting the treatment of blacks in Birmingham, Alabama. A court had ordered that King could not hold protests in Birmingham.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Birmingham campaign, also known as the Birmingham movement or Birmingham confrontation, was an American movement organized in early 1963 by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama.

Detailed explanation-4: -and Dozens More Civil Rights Marchers Violently Arrested in Birmingham. On April 12, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and at least 55 others, almost all of whom were Black, were jailed for “parading without a permit” during a march against segregation in Birmingham, Alabama.

Detailed explanation-5: -King transported to Georgia State Prison; John F. Kennedy calls Coretta Scott King over jailing. Before daybreak, Georgia law officials transport King to Georgia State Prison at Reidsville where he is to begin serving his four-month term.