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

From Scraps to LetterMartin Luther King Jr. penned his famous Letter from a Birmingham Jail in 1963. Sign up for our NewslettersIn 2023, the 60th anniversary year of this significant document of the ...

On Good Friday 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. and ... and with King in jail, it suddenly faced a crisis of fundraising and leadership. On the same day, eight prominent White clergymen published a letter ...

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

Imprisoned and held in solitary confinement after defying an injunction against the protests, Martin Luther King wrote his ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’. In response to criticism from local ...

The front page of The Washington Post, April 5, 1968 during the riots that followed Dr. Martin Luther ... great and moving letter he wrote from the Birmingham jail, Dr. King said: “Just as ...

On the 57th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther ... Letter from Birmingham Jail, 1963 Written in response to white clergy urging him to be patient, this quote defines King’s belief in collective ...

The legacy of Dr. Martin ... Luther King in honor of the German priest. Throughout his career as a civil rights activist, King was arrested 29 times. In his “Letter from a Birmingham Jail ...