In the solace of a Birmingham jail in ... were the perfect symbolic audience for the letter, Bass said. “After all, the Apostle Paul wrote letters from jail to fellow believers.

(Photo by Ernst Haas/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Martin Luther King Jr ... desegregation plan' outside the A.G. Gaston Motel in Birmingham, Alabama, February 1963. Standing behind Luther King ...

At the 1961 AFL-CIO convention, King framed his dream as one of economic justice and shared humanity, addressing a predominantly white audience ... in his Letter from a Birmingham Jail, which ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “Letter from Birmingham Jail” is widely regarded as one of the most important texts of the Civil Rights Movement. Ahead of the MLK holiday on Monday, HarperCollins ...

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.

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 ...

She shared her poetry with the post-parade crowd during the festival portion of the event, including one poem based on King’s seminal “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” Drawing on personal ...

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, ...

RIGHT HERE IN THE MAGIC CITY. FROM THE LETTER FROM THE BIRMINGHAM JAIL TO THE 16TH STREET BAPTIST CHURCH BOMBING, SOME OF THE BIGGEST MOMENTS IN CIVIL RIGHTS HISTORY HAPPENED RIGHT HERE IN THE MAGIC ...