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.

Sixty years ago, a Baptist minister sat in a southern jail cell and penned the most important written statement of the civil rights movement. Months before the March on Washington, where he ...

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 ...

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.