"When you take a cross-country drive and find it necessary to sleep night after night in the uncomfortable corners of your automobile because no motel will accept you; when you are humiliated day in and day out by nagging signs reading 'white' and 'colored'; when your first name becomes 'nigger' and your middle name becomes 'boy'…then you will understand why we find it so difficult to wait." This passage is from jailhouse correspondence from which civil rights activist?

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This passage is from "Letter from Birmingham Jail," written by Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1963. It addresses the injustices and daily humiliations faced by African Americans, explaining the urgency of the civil rights movement.

"When You Take a Cross-Country Drive and Find It Necessary