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Charles Colcock Jones Carpenter (September 2 1899 – June 29 1969) D.D. LL.D was consecrated Bishop of the Alabama Episcopal Diocese on June 24 1938 and served until 1968. He was one of the authors of the A Call for Unity letter published during Martin Luther King Jr.’s incarceration in a Birmingham Alabama jail asking him and his followers to refrain from demonstrating in the streets of Birmingham.