Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., American, 1929 - 1968 Birmingham Jail, American Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, American, founded 1992 Description A black-and-white photograph of Martin Luther King Jr.

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights leader, goes to jail in Birmingham, Ala., May 8, 1963, after being convicted of parading without a permit.

Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1963 “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” even more than his “I Have a Dream” speech at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, raised a vision for social ...

T he first time the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. rocked me was when I was a 16-year-old sleeping on the top bunk of a ...

— Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail “We stand in life at midnight; we are always on the threshold of a new ...

Rev. Martin Luther King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail" - written 60 years ago next week - deserves to stand alongside "I Have a DReam" as the slain leader's greatest works.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was held at the old jail in 1964. ... All of them along with a layman were in one cell. He recalls that some of the jail’s staff called them names and mocked them.