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

In 1963, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was behind bars in Alabama as a result of his continuing crusade for civil rights.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “Letter from Birmingham Jail” is widely regarded as one of the most important texts of the Civil Rights Movement. Ahead of the MLK holiday on Monday, HarperCollins ...

Thousands of people took to the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to take in history and ...

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In observation of MLK Day, a new commemorative copy of King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” (HarperCollins, $17.95) will be published Jan. 14 in time for the national holiday, and reading it — whether ...

Scholarly speeches, a free documentary screening and a silent march through campus, will all be part of Martin Luther King Jr ...

Sixty-two years after Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King's pen touches paper in a Birmingham jail cell, I contemplate the walls that ...

While Martin Luther King Jr. was in Birmingham’s city jail last April ... Excerpts from the letter, which was addressed to “My Dear Fellow Clergymen”: We have waited for more than 340 ...

Jan 11, 2025 Jan 11, 2025 Updated Jan 16, 2025 0 WESTERLY — As communities across the nation prepare to celebrate the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday on Monday, Jan. 20 — with prayer services ...

The theme of the new year’s event is “One People,” inspired by a message from Dr. King’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail: “We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a ...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested in Birmingham, Alabama on April 12, 1963, for demonstrating without a permit. During ...