Mr. Eig is the author of “King: A Life,” the winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for biography. Great waves of cruelty pound us. Government officials use the law to attack the weak and vulnerable. Out ...
Martin Luther King Jr. in jail in Birmingham, Alabama for campaigning against segregation. He wrote this letter on April 16, 1963 in response to a statement by eight Alabama clergymen who felt his ...
In April 1963, under police detention in Birmingham, Alabama, Martin Luther King read an open letter, published in a local newspaper, from a number of southern white clergymen calling for an end to ...