The request, which comes on the heels of an executive order by President Trump, represents a sharp reversal for the F.B.I.

S ixty-two years after Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King's pen touches paper in a Birmingham jail cell, I contemplate the walls that still divide us. Walls constructed in concrete to enclose Alabama ...

The future of the St. Johns County jail, where civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. was held in 1964, is uncertain after ...

The future of the St. Johns County jail, where civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. was held in 1964, is uncertain after an application to demolish the historic building was filed. The ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published in 2018 for the 50th anniversary of the Martin Luther King Jr. assassination ... time locked up in a jail cell. While he was a marginal ...

Martin Luther King ... dull monotony of a narrow jail cell other than write long letters, think strange thoughts, and pray long prayers?” The FBI tried to coerce King into suicide.

The 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 prison cell in the Southampton ... from Birmingham Jail and some Toni ...

Martin Luther ... Jail." 18. The original recipients of this Birmingham jail letter were eight white Alabama clergymen who had "A Call for Unity," a statement made against Dr. King and his methods ...