Liberation (journal)
''Liberation'' was a 20th-century pacifist journal published 1956 through 1977 in the United States. A bimonthly and later a monthly, the magazine identified in the 1960s with the New Left. History ''Liberation'' was founded, published, and edited by David Dellinger, Bayard Rustin, Sidney Lens, Roy Finch, and A. J. Muste out of New York City and Glen Gardner, New Jersey. Muste brought funding from the War Resisters League. For Rustin, the magazine was a major commitment of time and energy, raising money and meeting every week with Muste. He wrote to Martin Luther King Jr., who later wrote for the magazine. The June 1963 issue contained the full publication of King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail", the first version with that title. ''Liberation: An Independent Monthly'' published its first issue in April 1956. The editorial positions of the magazine were somewhat comparable to those of ''Dissent (American magazine), Dissent'' and ''Studies on the Left''. David Dellinger's suppor ...
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