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 building.

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights leader, goes to jail in Birmingham, Ala., May 8, 1963, after being convicted of parading without a permit. (AP Photo) ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was held at the old jail in 1964. It was the only time King was arrested in Florida.

Today, after nearly 60 years of questions surrounding the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., we are releasing 230,000 MLK assassination files,” Director of National Intelligence Tulsi ...

More than 240,000 pages of previously sealed records related to the assassination of Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King ...

The release of National Archives documents is the latest attempt to define what the Civil Rights icon believed, and what that ...

Martin Luther King, Jr. walks across the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, April 3, 1968. [AP Photo/Charles Kelly] ...

Martin Luther King Jr.'s family has objected to releasing the FBI surveillance files of the iconic civil rights leader ...