The year was 1963, and America was swept away in a civil rights movement that was at times peaceful and at other times exceedingly violent. 1963 was the year in which the 16th Street Baptist Church was bombed in Birmingham, Alabama. It was the year in which NAACP leader Medgar Evers was assassinated in Jackson, Mississippi. It was the year in which Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered his historic “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. And it was the year in which Bloody Monday occurred in Danville, Virginia. Listen in as one participant from Danville’s civil rights struggle reads a letter she wrote so many years ago while serving time in the local jail for her role in the protest.
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