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 ...

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 ...

But though I was initially disappointed at being categorized as an extremist, as I continued to think about the matter I gradually gained a measure of satisfaction from the label. Was not Jesus an ...