Laura Washington writes: “The art of letter writing, via pen and paper, is vanishing. Who will discover our stories, 200 years hence?”
I am a professional scribe. I love to write, but I can’t recall the last time I hand wrote — or received — a real letter.
Young readers, do you know what a pen pal is? I had one, at 8 years old. I connected to Caren through an ad in the back of a comic book. She lived in the far western suburbs. I wrote to her from Chicago’s South Side. We never met in person but formed a friendship via the U. S. mail. Letters are the reservoirs of our history. They can also change history. In April 1963, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. penned hisKing was arrested in Birmingham, Alabama, during his nonviolent protests against racism and racial segregation. Imprisoned under harsh conditions, he wrote a response to the racist overlords on the margins of a newspaper and other paper scraps that were smuggled to him.
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