On April 12, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and nearly 50 other protestors and civil rights leaders were arrested after leading a Good Friday demonstration as part of the Birmingham Campaign, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An attorney for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who helped smuggle out snippets of King's writing that became the "Letter from ...

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, ...

Martin Luther King's 'Letter from Birmingham Jail,' 50th anniversary video On the 50th anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King's influential 'Letter from Birmingham Jail,' Nola.com | The Times-Picayune ...

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote some of his most enduring words behind bars. From a Birmingham, Alabama, jail cell in 1963, on smuggled bits of paper, he wrote a legendary essay that still lands ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Dr. Martin Luther King's imprisonment in Birmingham, Alabama is described. The events and causes leading up to King's Letter from Birmingham Jail. In ...

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 ...

WARREN -- Solo Ogletree may not know many of the complex intricacies that, woven together, formed the crux of who Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was, but he certainly appears to have the foundation in ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey discusses Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail from a literary perspective.

More than six decades after the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. composed his “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” the then-young Black woman who helped transform scattered notes on smuggled scraps of paper ...