King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” published 60 years ago this month, is so soaked in American history that we almost forget it was addressed not to the nation but to the White church. Its ...

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 ...

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

It’s called civil disobedience ... during World War II and Martin Luther King Jr. In his 1963 “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” King, who himself was perceived to be an “outside agitator ...