King's 'Letter from Birmingham Jail' is not just a seminal document of American civil rights. It's a masterpiece of ...

American Baptist minister and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr (1929 - 1968 ... plan' outside the A.G. Gaston Motel in Birmingham, Alabama, February 1963. Standing behind Luther King ...

The seat is part of the Museum of the American Revolution's exhibit on the Declaration of Independence, opening Oct. 18.

On Good Friday 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. and 50 others were charged with violating a court order against mass demonstrations. He was arrested and taken to the city jail in Birmingham, Alabama, where ...

S ixty-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 ...

Hundreds of people visited the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute on Monday to honor Martin Luther King Jr.'s life and legacy on MLK Day.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. ( WIAT) — A 55-year-old man was found dead inside his cell at the Birmingham City Jail on January 20. The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office stated that Sonny Charles Leppala, of ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and his colleagues at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference set their sights on what King referred to as “the most segregated city in America" — Birmingham, ...

MLK’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” was first published without ... “Why We Can’t Wait,” has been read in the Alabama Senate and is one of the most anthologized writings in American ...