From Scraps to LetterMartin Luther King Jr. penned his famous Letter from a Birmingham Jail in 1963. Sign up for our ...

A newly discovered note from CT’s first editor, Carl Henry, shows how King’s Birmingham Jail missive shifted a white pastor’s ...

The King Center and voting rights advocacy group Black Voters Matter are uniting to influence a new generation of activists.

“Letter from Birmingham Jail” is about the church that failed ... His most recent book is Our Hearts Are Restless: The Art of Spiritual Memoir (Oxford University Press). Sometimes they’re the only ...

On April 16, 1963, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote "Letter from Birmingham Jail" while imprisoned in Alabama for ...

On April 16, 1963, MLK wrote "Letter from Birmingham Jail" while imprisoned in Alabama for protesting segregation. Photo by Bonnie Cash/UPI ...

In 1963, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote "Letter from Birmingham Jail" while imprisoned in Alabama for protesting segregation. It was published May 19, 1963. In 1972, Apollo 16 blasted off on an ...