In his “Letter From Birmingham Jail,” King connects with those ideas by writing, “We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because the goal of America is ...

gives a press conference regarding an agreement reached on a 'limited desegregation plan' outside the A.G. Gaston Motel in Birmingham, Alabama, February 1963. Standing behind Luther King is his ...

“Letter from Birmingham Jail” is about the church that failed ... It is nowhere more poignantly expressed than in another public letter, the anonymous Letter to Diognetus written by an unnamed ...

The metal seat from which the civil rights leader wrote "Letter from Birmingham Jail" will be included in the museum's upcoming exhibit on the Declaration of Independence, the museum said Monday.

Damien Laron McDaniel, who is facing charges related to two mass shootings in Birmingham, has filed a motion requesting a ...

In response, King wrote a letter from Birmingham City Jail, noting, “I guess it is easy for those who have never felt the stinging darts of segregation to say, ‘Wait.’ ” It stands today as ...

Sixty-two years after Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King's pen touches paper in a Birmingham jail cell, I contemplate the walls that still divide us. Walls constructed in concrete to enclose Alabama jails, ...

It was written in response to a letter from ... The Montgomery Story,” in 1958. “Letter From Birmingham Jail” includes an afterword from poet and legal scholar Reginald Dwayne Betts, who ...