There, MLK penned his famously stirring letter defending African-American resistance. In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph Abernathy led a march through the streets of Birmingham, Alabama.

In the solace of a Birmingham jail in April 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. penned what many consider “one of the greatest documents ever written by an American.” King came across an article ...

In 1963, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was behind bars in Alabama ... In response, King wrote a letter from Birmingham City Jail, noting, “I guess it is easy for those who have never felt ...

American Baptist minister and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr (1929 - 1968 ... plan' outside the A.G. Gaston Motel in Birmingham, Alabama, February 1963. Standing behind Luther King ...

The prison bench where Martin Luther King Jr. penned one of his best-known ... from which the civil rights leader wrote "Letter from Birmingham Jail" will be included in the museum's upcoming ...