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Jail where Martin Luther King Jr. was held in 1964 may face demolition
The future of the St. Johns County jail, where civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. was held in 1964, is uncertain after ...
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Could St. Johns County's Old Jail, where MLK and several rabbis were jailed in 1964, be demolished?
The future of a former jail in St. Augustine, Florida, that once held Martin Luther King Jr. is uncertain as officials weigh demolition requests. Local historians and activists are petitioning to ...
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St. Johns County jail where Martin Luther King Jr. was held in 1964 faces possible demolition
ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. — 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 historic ...
Would Releasing the Martin Luther King Files Help Curb the Surveillance State?
The federal government is seeking to unseal long-classified FBI surveillance records on Martin Luther King Jr. nearly two ...
Judge weighs government's request to unseal records of FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr.
A federal judge is weighing a request from the Trump administration to unseal records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr. — files that the civil rights leader’s relatives want to keep ...
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Why he couldn’t wait: Dr. Martin Luther King’s letter from Birmingham Jail
In 1963, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was behind bars in Alabama as ... In response, King wrote a letter from Birmingham City Jail, noting, “I guess it is easy for those who have never ...
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For Those Who Wish to Fight Back but Don’t Know How
These were the conditions the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. described in the letter he wrote from a Birmingham, Ala., jail cell. First published in May 1963, the letter spread widely ...