An attorney for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who helped smuggle out snippets of King’s writing that became the “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” has died. When King was behind bars at the ...

:43 IT WAS THE COURSE CORRECT FOR AMERICA :46 THE LETTER FROM BIRMINGHAM JAIL. IT IS A RESPONSE TO ALL OF HIS CRITICS AROUND THE COUNTRY WRITTEN APRIL 1963 BY DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. 19:10 I WAS IN ...

(RNS) — It’s been more than half a century since the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his famous “Letter from Birmingham Jail” on scraps of paper, but faith leaders say his response to white clergy ...

Clarence B. Jones, an attorney and speechwriter for Martin Luther King, Jr. who was with the late minister and civil rights ...

Editor’s note: When we celebrate the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday each year, many of us return to his writing and public remarks. We read or listen to the speech he gave on the steps of ...

Leventhal is a San Diego lawyer. He lives in Torrey Highlands. As we celebrate and reflect on the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., I cannot help but think about Dr. King’s “Letter from Birmingham ...

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 delivered ...

What does the “Letter From Birmingham Jail” reveal about the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., known as an agent of social change, a dreamer and peacemaker? That he was at times angry and frustrated, yet ...

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” written 61 years ago this month, will be read aloud this week at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. The reading will be ...

A recent MSNBC report on Sunday night detailed how Martin Luther King Jr. smuggled a letter containing some of his most famous writings out of his prison cell in Birmingham. What some viewers may have ...