The King Center and voting rights advocacy group Black Voters Matter are uniting to influence a new generation of activists.

From Scraps to LetterMartin Luther King Jr. penned his famous Letter from a Birmingham Jail in 1963. Sign up for our NewslettersIn 2023, the 60th anniversary year of this significant document of the ...

In 1963, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote "Letter from Birmingham Jail" while imprisoned in Alabama for protesting segregation. It was published May 19, 1963. In 1972, Apollo 16 blasted off ...

Let us call to mind and heart the insights or events that have moved us to express our faith in action, how our work ...

A newly discovered note from CT’s first editor, Carl Henry, shows how King’s Birmingham Jail missive shifted a white pastor’s view on integration. Every April since 1963, thousands recall ...

Many of the new artifacts carry the weight of history, but also the freedom stories and intimate histories of the families that long preserved them.

On April 16, 1963, MLK wrote "Letter from Birmingham Jail" while imprisoned in Alabama for protesting segregation. Photo by Bonnie Cash/UPI ...

In his famous “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” King took full responsibility for his actions. No mask to hide him; no lawyers to excuse him. These were gestures, to be sure, but they served his ...

Throughout his career as a civil rights activist, King was arrested 29 times. In his “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” King wrote “sometimes a law is just on its face and unjust in its ...

In the spring of 1963, Constance Baker Motley watched the protests in Birmingham, Alabama, with hope—and concern. The nation’s most segregated city, Birmingham had become the center of the ...