Shreveport police had Deceldrion Gay, 19, in custody Monday night not long after the shooting. Violent Crimes detectives ...

The future of the St. Johns County jail, where civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. was held in 1964, is uncertain after an application to demolish the building.

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” written 61 years ago this month, will be read aloud this week at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.

King wrote the 21-page letter in his jail cell on the margins of a newspaper and scraps of writing paper before concluding it on a notepad his attorneys were able to give him. The notepad ...

Updated: 2:02 PM EST Feb 22, 2023 Editorial Standards ⓘ WVTM 13 Digital ... BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — From scraps to letter Martin Luther King Jr. penned his famous Letter from a Birmingham Jail in 1963.

50 years ago, Martin Luther King, Jr. was finishing up the “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” Here’s why it changed history.

The county is taking steps to preserve the long-forgotten lockup, where officials say Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. served his final stint behind bars in 1967 about five months before his assassination.

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was lonely, scared, and certainly in danger during each of his imprisonments. But none of these jail experiences changed his basic goodness, a fact to remember as ...

On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, it’s fitting that a former prison will present readings of historic words the civil rights leader wrote from a jail cell. The Eastern State Penitentiary Historic ...