On Good Friday 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. and 50 others were charged with violating ... sheets of stationery smuggled in by a sympathetic jailer. King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” published 60 ...

As MLK noted in his "Letter from Birmingham Jail," written on April 16, 1963: "We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one ...

Ripon College student Gary G. Yerkey was among 10 from the college eager to join the march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery, Alabama.

and environs,the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. deliberately set out ... able to state in a national fund-raising “Letter from a Selma, Ala., Jail” newspaper advertisement that “there are ...