Martin Luther King Jr. penned his famous Letter from a Birmingham Jail in 1963. Sign up for our Newsletters In 2023, the 60th anniversary year of this significant document of the Civil Rights movement ...

The Peninsula Solidarity Cohort is sponsoring a Jan. 20 reading of “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” honoring Martin Luther King Jr. Day — and acknowledging the presidential inauguration — with the ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

In 1963, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was behind bars in Alabama as a result of his continuing crusade for civil rights. While there, he was the subject of criticism by eight white clergymen, who ...

The prison bench where Martin Luther King Jr. penned one of his best-known letters will be displayed at the Museum of the American Revolution later this year. The metal seat from which the civil ...

April 16 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1862, the U.S. Congress abolished slavery in the District of Columbia. In 2005, the city officially began observing the date as Emancipation Day. In 1912, ...

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 ...