Letter to Editor of Time Magazine

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Author: Levison, Stanley D.

Place Written: New York, N.Y.

Document Date: 1/11/1962

Genre: Letter

Document Type: Letter

Type of Writing: Typed

Author: Levison, Stanley D.

Author Dates: 1912-1979

Author Affiliation: Park Management Company

Document ID: 620111-009

Document Date: 1/11/1962

Type of Writing: Typed

Document Type: Letter

Type of Version: Copy

Status: In Vol. 7

Place Written: New York, N.Y.

Genre: Letter

Document Length: 1 p.

Dates: 1/12/1962

Names: King, Martin Luther, Jr.

Organizations: Time Magazine

Places: Atlanta, Ga.; Mississippi; Albany, Ga.; Montgomery, Ala.; Indianapolis, Ind.

Topics: Freedom rides; Albany Movement; Martin Luther King, Jr. - Arrests; Martin Luther King, Jr. - Threats/attacks against; Martin Luther King, Jr. - Critics

Other Topics: Races

Code for Location of Original: SCLCR-GAMK

Location of Original: Southern Christian Leadership Conference Records, 1954-1970, Martin Luther King, Jr., Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Inc., Atlanta, Ga.

Location of Original - Detail: Box 36, folder 21

Copy Location (1): MLKPP, Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.

Date Created: 6/30/2003 12:00:00 AM

Date Verified: 7/9/2003 10:34:41; ebrummel

Date Updated: 6/2/2015 9:19:09 AM

Letter from a Birmingham Jail

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Author: King, Martin Luther, Jr.

Place Written: Birmingham, Ala.

Document Date: 4/16/1963

Genre: Letter

Document Type: Letter

Type of Writing: Typed

Author: King, Martin Luther, Jr.

Author Dates: 1929-1968

Author Affiliation: Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Document ID: 630416-000

Document Date: 4/16/1963

Type of Writing: Typed

Document Type: Letter

Status: Cal. 8

Place Written: Birmingham, Ala.

Genre: Letter

Document Length: 11 pp.

Dates: 9/1962; 3/1963; 1954; 4/12/1963

Names: Shuttlesworth, Fred L.; Buber, Martin; Connor, Eugene; Tillich, Paul; Elijah Muhammad; Boutwell, Albert Burton; Jesus Christ; Carpenter, C. C. Jones; Durick, Joseph A.; Grafman, Milton L.; Hardin, Paul; Harmon, Noland B.; Murray, George M.; Ramage, Edward V.; Stallings, Earl; Socrates; Niebuhr, Reinhold; Hitler, Adolf; Luther, Martin; Amos (Biblical prophet); Paul, the Apostle, Saint; Jefferson, Thomas; McGill, Ralph; Smith, Lillian Eugenia; Golden, Harry; Dabbs, James McBride; Barnett, Ross R. [Mississippi. Office of the Governor]; Wallace, George C. (George Corley) [Alabama. Office of the Governor]; Pritchett, Laurie; Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns); Meredith, James; King, Yolanda; King, Martin Luther, III; Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo; Aquinas, Thomas, Saint; Nebuchadnezzar II, King of Babylonia; Shadrach (Biblical figure); Meshach (Biblical figure); Abednego (Biblical figure); Lincoln, Abraham

Organizations: Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR); United States. Supreme Court; Birmingham City Jail (Birmingham, Ala.); White Citizens Council; Ku Klux Klan; Spring Hill College (Mobile, Ala.); Funtown (Atlanta, Ga.); Alabama. Legislature; Mississippi. Office of the Governor; Alabama. Office of the Governor; Birmingham (Ala.). Police Dept.

Places: Atlanta, Ga.; Montgomery, Ala.; Albany, Ga.; New Orleans, La.; Tarsus, Turkey; Macedonia; Asia; Africa; Hungary; Germany; Texas; Caribbean; South America; Mississippi; Plymouth, Mass.

Topics: Martin Luther King, Jr. - Critics; Martin Luther King, Jr. - Arrests; Birmingham, 1963; Afro-Americans--Intimidation of; Segregation--law and legislation; Discrimination in public accomodations; Direct action; Nonviolence; Letter from a Birmingham Jail

Other Topics: Matthew 5:44; Amos 5:24; Galatians 6:17

Code for Location of Original: WGC-INP

Location of Original: William Gregory Collection, In Private Hands

Copy Location (1): MLKPP, Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.

Date Created: 8/10/1989 12:00:00 AM

Date Verified: 01/31/1991

Date Updated: 9/14/2016 2:22:54 PM

Letter from a Birmingham Jail

http://okra.stanford.edu/en/permalink/document630416-019

Author: King, Martin Luther, Jr.

Place Written: Birmingham, Ala.

Document Date: 4/16/1963

Genre: Letter

Document Type: Letter

Type of Writing: Typed

Author: King, Martin Luther, Jr.

Author Dates: 1929-1968

Author Affiliation: Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Document ID: 630416-019

Document Date: 4/16/1963

Type of Writing: Typed

Document Type: Letter

Status: In Vol. 8

Place Written: Birmingham, Ala.

Genre: Letter

Document Length: 23 pp.

Dates: 9/1962; 4/14/1963; 3/1963; 5/17/1954; 4/12/1963

Names: Higginbotham, Joe C.; Carpenter, C. C. Jones; Durick, Joseph A.; Grafman, Milton L.; Harmon, Nolan; Murray, George M.; Ramage, Edward V.; Stallings, Earl; Shuttlesworth, Fred L. [Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR)]; Connor, Eugene; Socrates; Boutwell, Albert Burton; Niebuhr, Reinhold; King, Yolanda; King, Martin Luther, III; Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo; Aquinas, Thomas, Saint; Buber, Martin; Tillich, Paul; Shadrach (Biblical figure); Meshach (Biblical figure); Abednego (Biblical figure); Nebuchadnezzar II, King of Babylonia; Hitler, Adolf; Jesus Christ; Elijah Muhammad; Amos (Biblical prophet); Paul, the Apostle, Saint; Luther, Martin; Bunyan, John; Lincoln, Abraham; Jefferson, Thomas; McGill, Ralph; Smith, Lillian Eugenia; Golden, Harry; Dabbs, James McBride; Barnett, Ross R. [Mississippi. Office of the Governor]; Wallace, George C. (George Corley) [Alabama. Office of the Governor]; Pritchett, Laurie [Albany (Ga.). Police Dept.]; Meredith, James; Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns)

Organizations: Birmingham City Jail (Birmingham, Ala.); Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR); Birmingham (Ala.). Office of the Mayor; Funtown (Atlanta, Ga.); United States. Supreme Court; Ku Klux Klan; White Citizens Council; Spring Hill College (Mobile, Ala.); Alabama. Office of the Governor; Mississippi. Office of the Governor; Birmingham (Ala.). Police Dept.; Albany (Ga.). Police Dept.

Places: Atlanta, Ga.; Tarsus, Turkey; Macedonia; Montgomery, Ala.; Asia; Africa; New Orleans, La.; Texas; Germany; Hungary; South America; Caribbean; Mississippi; Albany, Ga.; Plymouth, Mass.

Topics: Letter from a Birmingham Jail; Martin Luther King, Jr. - Arrests; Birmingham, 1963; Direct action; Martin Luther King, Jr. - Critics; Civil Disobedience; Church and Race Relations; Afro-Americans--Intimidation of; Brown vs. Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas; Natural law; Southern Christian Leadership Conference--relations with other organizations; Discrimination in public accommodations; World Politics; Sit-ins; Freedom rides; Nonviolence

Other Topics: Matthew 5:44; Amos 5:24; Galatians 6:17

Code for Location of Original: AU

Location of Original: University of Alabama (University, AL)

Copy Location (1): ABBP-AB, Albert Burton Boutwell Papers, Birmingham Public and Jefferson County Free Library, Birmingham, Ala.

Filing Info: Box 12, folder 43

Copy Location (2): LMHHP-AlBiCRI, Lola Hendricks Collection, Birmingham Civil Rights Institute

Filing Info: Box 8, folder 5

Copy Location (3): MLKPP, Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.

Date Created: 7/24/2006 12:00:00 AM

Date Verified: 11/5/2009; 11/5/2009 susane

Date Updated: 9/14/2016 2:47:03 PM

Letter from a Birmingham Jail

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Author: King, Martin Luther, Jr.

Place Written: Birmingham, Ala.

Document Date: 4/16/1963

Genre: Letter

Document Type: Letter

Type of Writing: Typed

Author: King, Martin Luther, Jr.

Author Dates: 1929-1968

Document ID: 630416-020

Document Date: 4/16/1963

Type of Writing: Typed

Document Type: Letter

Status: Cal. 8

Place Written: Birmingham, Ala.

Genre: Letter

Document Length: 11 pp.

Dates: 9/1962; 4/14/1963; 3/1963; 5/17/1954; 4/12/1963

Names: Higginbotham, Joe C.; Carpenter, C. C. Jones; Durick, Joseph A.; Grafman, Milton L.; Hardin, Paul; Harmon, Nolan; Murray, George M.; Ramage, Edward V.; Stallings, Earl; Shuttlesworth, Fred L. [Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR)]; Connor, Eugene; Socrates; Boutwell, Albert Burton; Niebuhr, Reinhold; King, Yolanda; King, Martin Luther, III; Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo; Aquinas, Thomas, Saint; Buber, Martin; Tillich, Paul; Shadrach (Biblical figure); Meshach (Biblical figure); Abednego (Biblical figure); Nebuchadnezzar II, King of Babylonia; Hitler, Adolf; Jesus Christ; Elijah Muhammad; Amos (Biblical prophet); Paul, the Apostle, Saint; Luther, Martin; Bunyan, John; Lincoln, Abraham; Jefferson, Thomas; McGill, Ralph; Smith, Lillian Eugenia; Golden, Harry; Dabbs, James McBride; Barnett, Ross R. [Mississippi. Office of the Governor]; Wallace, George C. (George Corley) [Alabama. Office of the Governor]; Pritchett, Laurie [Albany (Ga.). Police Dept.]; Meredith, James; Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns)

Organizations: Birmingham City Jail (Birmingham, Ala.); Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR); Birmingham (Ala.). Office of the Mayor; Funtown (Atlanta, Ga.); United States. Supreme Court; Ku Klux Klan; White Citizens Council; Spring Hill College (Mobile, Ala.); Alabama. Office of the Governor; Mississippi. Office of the Governor; Birmingham (Ala.). Police Dept.; Albany (Ga.). Police Dept.

Places: Atlanta, Ga.; Tarsus, Turkey; Macedonia; Montgomery, Ala.; Asia; Africa; New Orleans, La.; Texas; Germany; Hungary; South America; Caribbean; Mississippi; Albany, Ga.; Plymouth, Mass.

Topics: Letter from a Birmingham Jail; Martin Luther King, Jr. - Arrests; Birmingham, 1963; Direct action; Martin Luther King, Jr. - Critics; Civil Disobedience; Church and Race Relations; Afro-Americans--Intimidation of; Brown vs. Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas; Natural law; Southern Christian Leadership Conference--relations with other organizations; Discrimination in public accommodations; World Politics; Sit-ins; Freedom rides; Nonviolence

Code for Location of Original: AFSCC-ICIU

Location of Original: American Friends Service Committee (Chicago) Papers, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, Chicago, Ill.

Location of Original - Detail: Box 38, folder 2

Copy Location (1): BMPP-MBJFK, Burke Marshall Personal Papers, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Boston, Mass.

Filing Info: Box 5, folder May 1963

Copy Location (2): JFKWHCSF-MBJFK, John F. Kennedy Presidential Papers, White House Central Subject Files, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Boston, Mass.

Filing Info: Box 367, folder 6

Copy Location (3): MLKPP, Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.

Date Created: 8/3/2006 12:00:00 AM

Date Verified: 8/24/2006 13:24:44; bhunter

Date Updated: 9/14/2016 2:54:55 PM

Letter from a Birmingham Jail

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Author: King, Martin Luther, Jr.

Place Written: Birmingham, Ala.

Document Date: 4/16/1963

Genre: Letter

Document Type: Letter

Type of Writing: Typed

Author: King, Martin Luther, Jr.

Author Dates: 1929-1968

Author Affiliation: Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Document ID: 630416-027

Document Date: 4/16/1963

Type of Writing: Typed

Document Type: Letter

Status: Cal. 8

Place Written: Birmingham, Ala.

Genre: Letter

Document Length: 11 pp.

Document Note: Enclosed in 630606-039.

Dates: 9/1962; 4/14/1963; 3/1963; 5/17/1954; 4/12/1963

Names: Carpenter, C. C. Jones; Durick, Joseph A.; Grafman, Milton L.; Harmon, Nolan; Murray, George M.; Ramage, Edward V.; Stallings, Earl; Shuttlesworth, Fred L. [Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR)]; Connor, Eugene; Socrates; Boutwell, Albert Burton; Niebuhr, Reinhold; King, Yolanda; King, Martin Luther, III; Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo; Aquinas, Thomas, Saint; Buber, Martin; Tillich, Paul; Shadrach (Biblical figure); Meshach (Biblical figure); Abednego (Biblical figure); Nebuchadnezzar II, King of Babylonia; Hitler, Adolf; Jesus Christ; Elijah Muhammad; Amos (Biblical prophet); Paul, the Apostle, Saint; Luther, Martin; Bunyan, John; Lincoln, Abraham; Jefferson, Thomas; McGill, Ralph; Smith, Lillian Eugenia; Golden, Harry; Dabbs, James McBride; Barnett, Ross R. [Mississippi. Office of the Governor]; Wallace, George C. (George Corley) [Alabama. Office of the Governor]; Pritchett, Laurie [Albany (Ga.). Police Dept.]; Meredith, James; Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns)

Organizations: Birmingham City Jail (Birmingham, Ala.); Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR); Birmingham (Ala.). Office of the Mayor; Funtown (Atlanta, Ga.); United States. Supreme Court; Ku Klux Klan; White Citizens Council; Spring Hill College (Mobile, Ala.); Alabama. Office of the Governor; Mississippi. Office of the Governor; Birmingham (Ala.). Police Dept.; Albany (Ga.). Police Dept.

Places: Atlanta, Ga.; Tarsus, Turkey; Macedonia; Montgomery, Ala.; Asia; Africa; New Orleans, La.; Texas; Germany; Hungary; South America; Caribbean; Mississippi; Albany, Ga.; Plymouth, Mass.

Topics: Letter from a Birmingham Jail; Martin Luther King, Jr. - Arrests; Birmingham, 1963; Segregation--law and legislation; Discrimination in public accomodations; Brown vs. Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas; Civil Disobedience; Natural law; Hungary Revolution, 1956; Black nationalism; Church and Race Relations; Martin Luther King, Jr. - Political and Social views

Other Topics: Amos 5:24; Matthew 5:44; Galatians 6:17; Philippians 3:20; Declaration of Independence

Code for Location of Original: CCFA-ICarbS

Location of Original: Christian Century Foundation Archives, Special Collections Research Center, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Ill.

Copy Location (1): BMCRFA-AB, Burke Marshall, Files on Civil Rights in Alabama, Birmingham Public and Jefferson County Free Library, Birmingham, Ala.

Filing Info: Box 1, folder 5

Copy Location (2): DJG-GEU-S, David J. Garrow Collection, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga.

Filing Info: Box 1.1

Copy Location (3): CB-CtY-BR, Chester Bowles Collection, Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, Conn.

Copy Location (4): MMBC-INP, Malcolm M. Bliss Collection, In Private Hands

Copy Location (5): JMRP-GEU-S, Jacob M. Rothschild Papers, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga.

Filing Info: Box 6, folder 7

Copy Location (6): BMPP-MBJFK, Burke Marshall Personal Papers, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Boston, Mass.

Filing Info: Box 8

Copy Location (7): BMPP-MBJFK, Burke Marshall Personal Papers, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Boston, Mass.

Filing Info: Digital file 001351-009-0001

Copy Location (8): MLKPP, Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.

Date Created: 5/7/2012 12:00:00 AM

Date Verified: 5/14/2012 alexmw

Date Updated: 10/17/2016 2:15:58 PM

Letter from a Birmingham Jail

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Author: King, Martin Luther, Jr.

Place Written: Birmingham, Ala.

Document Date: 4/16/1963

Genre: Letter

Document Type: Letter

Type of Writing: Typed

Author: King, Martin Luther, Jr.

Author Dates: 1929-1968

Document ID: 630416-033

Document Date: 4/16/1963

Type of Writing: Typed

Document Type: Letter

Status: Cal. 8

Place Written: Birmingham, Ala.

Genre: Letter

Document Length: 22 pp.

Dates: 9/1962; 4/14/1963; 3/1963; 5/17/1954; 4/12/1963

Names: Carpenter, C. C. Jones; Durick, Joseph A.; Grafman, Milton L.; Harmon, Nolan; Hardin, Paul; Murray, George M.; Ramage, Edward V.; Stallings, Earl; Shuttlesworth, Fred L. [Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR)]; Connor, Eugene; Socrates; Boutwell, Albert Burton; Niebuhr, Reinhold; King, Yolanda; King, Martin Luther, III; Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo; Aquinas, Thomas, Saint; Buber, Martin; Tillich, Paul; Shadrach (Biblical figure); Meshach (Biblical figure); Abednego (Biblical figure); Nebuchadnezzar II, King of Babylonia; Hitler, Adolf; Jesus Christ; Elijah Muhammad; Amos (Biblical prophet); Paul, the Apostle, Saint; Luther, Martin; Bunyan, John; Lincoln, Abraham; Jefferson, Thomas; McGill, Ralph; Smith, Lillian Eugenia; Golden, Harry; Dabbs, James McBride; Barnett, Ross R. [Mississippi. Office of the Governor]; Wallace, George C. (George Corley) [Alabama. Office of the Governor]; Pritchett, Laurie [Albany (Ga.). Police Dept.]; Meredith, James; Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns)

Organizations: Birmingham City Jail (Birmingham, Ala.); Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR); Birmingham (Ala.). Office of the Mayor; Funtown (Atlanta, Ga.); United States. Supreme Court; Ku Klux Klan; White Citizens Council; Spring Hill College (Mobile, Ala.); Alabama. Office of the Governor; Mississippi. Office of the Governor; Birmingham (Ala.). Police Dept.; Albany (Ga.). Police Dept.

Places: Atlanta, Ga.; Tarsus, Turkey; Macedonia; Montgomery, Ala.; Asia; Africa; New Orleans, La.; Texas; Germany; Hungary; South America; Caribbean; Mississippi; Albany, Ga.; Plymouth, Mass.

Topics: Letter from a Birmingham Jail; Martin Luther King, Jr. - Arrests; Birmingham, 1963; Direct action; Martin Luther King, Jr. - Critics; Civil Disobedience; Church and Race Relations; Afro-Americans--Intimidation of; Brown vs. Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas; Natural law; Southern Christian Leadership Conference--relations with other organizations

Other Topics: Matthew 5:44; Amos 5:24; Galatians 6:17

Code for Location of Original: JTPC-AlBiCRI

Location of Original: John Thomas Porter Collection, Birmingham Civil Rights Institute

Location of Original - Detail: Box 1, folder 1

Copy Location (1): SCs-AlBiCRI, Small Collections, Birmingham Civil Rights Institute

Filing Info: Collection 97-0051, Box 2

Copy Location (2): MLKPP, Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.

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Date Updated: 9/14/2016 3:01:39 PM

Letter from a Birmingham Jail

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Author: King, Martin Luther, Jr.

Place Written: Birmingham, Ala.

Document Date: 4/16/1963

Genre: Letter

Document Type: Letter

Type of Writing: Typed

Author: King, Martin Luther, Jr.

Author Dates: 1929-1968

Document ID: 630416-034

Document Date: 4/16/1963

Type of Writing: Typed

Document Type: Letter

Type of Version: Copy

Status: Cal. 8

Place Written: Birmingham, Ala.

Genre: Letter

Document Length: 19 pp.

Dates: 9/1962; 4/14/1963; 3/1963; 5/17/1954; 4/12/1963

Names: Carpenter, C. C. Jones; Durick, Joseph A.; Grafman, Milton L.; Harmon, Nolan; Murray, George M.; Ramage, Edward V.; Stallings, Earl; Shuttlesworth, Fred L. [Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR)]; Connor, Eugene; Socrates; Boutwell, Albert Burton; Niebuhr, Reinhold; King, Yolanda; King, Martin Luther, III; Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo; Aquinas, Thomas, Saint; Buber, Martin; Tillich, Paul; Shadrach (Biblical figure); Meshach (Biblical figure); Abednego (Biblical figure); Nebuchadnezzar II, King of Babylonia; Hitler, Adolf; Jesus Christ; Elijah Muhammad; Amos (Biblical prophet); Paul, the Apostle, Saint; Luther, Martin; Bunyan, John; Lincoln, Abraham; Jefferson, Thomas; McGill, Ralph; Smith, Lillian Eugenia; Golden, Harry; Dabbs, James McBride; Barnett, Ross R. [Mississippi. Office of the Governor]; Wallace, George C. (George Corley) [Alabama. Office of the Governor]; Pritchett, Laurie [Albany (Ga.). Police Dept.]; Meredith, James; Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns)

Organizations: Birmingham City Jail (Birmingham, Ala.); Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR); Birmingham (Ala.). Office of the Mayor; Funtown (Atlanta, Ga.); United States. Supreme Court; Ku Klux Klan; White Citizens Council; Spring Hill College (Mobile, Ala.); Alabama. Office of the Governor; Mississippi. Office of the Governor; Birmingham (Ala.). Police Dept.; Albany (Ga.). Police Dept.

Places: Atlanta, Ga.; Tarsus, Turkey; Macedonia; Montgomery, Ala.; Asia; Africa; New Orleans, La.; Texas; Germany; Hungary; South America; Caribbean; Mississippi; Albany, Ga.; Plymouth, Mass.

Topics: Letter from a Birmingham Jail; Martin Luther King, Jr. - Arrests; Birmingham, 1963; Direct action; Martin Luther King, Jr. - Critics; Civil Disobedience; Church and Race Relations; Afro-Americans--Intimidation of; Brown vs. Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas; Natural law; Southern Christian Leadership Conference--relations with other organizations

Other Topics: Matthew 5:44; Amos 5:24; Galatians 6:17

Code for Location of Original: SDLC-INP

Location of Original: Stanley D. Levison Collection, In Private Hands

Copy Location (1): MLKPP, Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.

Date Created: 12/15/2015 12:00:00 AM

Date Updated: 9/14/2016 3:02:46 PM

A Letter From the Birmingham Jail, Sermon delivered at Ebenezer Baptist Church

http://okra.stanford.edu/en/permalink/document630421-000

Author: King, Martin Luther, Jr.

Place Written: Atlanta, Ga.

Document Date: 4/21/1963

Genre: Sermon

Document Type: Audio Tape

Author: King, Martin Luther, Jr.

Author Dates: 1929-1968

Document ID: 630421-000

Document Date: 4/21/1963

Document Type: Audio Tape

Status: In Vol. 8

Place Written: Atlanta, Ga.

Genre: Sermon

Document Length: 52.9 min.

Document Note: 2 sound cassettes: analog

Dates: 4/22/1963; 4/17/1963; 4/18/1963; 1956; 4/3/1963; 4/12/1963; 1620; 4/14/1963; 4/13/1963

Names: Handel, George Frideric; Abernathy, Ralph; Luther, Martin; Peter, the Apostle, Saint; Belafonte, Harry; Muhammad, Elijah [Nation of Islam]; Shuttlesworth, Fred L. [Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR)]; Connor, Eugene; King, Bernice A.; King, Alberta Williams; King, Coretta Scott; Scott, Bernice M.; Griffin, Marvin C.; Jesus Christ; Amos (Biblical prophet); Paul, the Apostle, Saint; Niebuhr, Reinhold; Holmes, Hamilton; Holmes, Alfred; Boutwell, Albert Burton; King, Yolanda; King, Martin Luther, III; Lincoln, Abraham; Jefferson, Thomas; Key, Francis Scott; King, Martin Luther; Jones, Clarence B.

Organizations: Birmingham (Ala.). City Jail; Talladega College (Talladega, Ala.); Alabama. Circuit Court (10th Circuit); National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP); Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.); Congress of Racial Equality; Jefferson County (Ala.). County Jail; United States. Supreme Court; Birmingham (Ala.). Police Dept.; Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR); Ebenezer Baptist Church (Atlanta, Ga.); University of Georgia (Athens, Ga.); Rich's Department Store (Atlanta, Ga.); Nation of Islam; West Hunter Baptist Church (Atlanta, Ga.)

Places: Talladega, Ala.; Birmingham, Ala.; Montgomery, Ala.; Tarsus, Turkey; Athens, Greece; Rome, Italy; Philippi; Corinth, Greece; Ephesus; Thessalonica, Greece; Albany, Ga.; New York, N.Y.; Jackson, Miss.; Greenwood, Miss.; Plymouth, Mass.; Florida; Tennessee

Topics: Southern Christian Leadership Conference--trials, litigation, etc.; Montgomery Bus Boycott; Black nationalism; Albany Movement; Birmingham, 1963; Sit-ins; School integration; Discrimination in public accommodations; Afro-Americans - Economic conditions; Martin Luther King, Jr. - Arrests; Martin Luther King, Jr. - Public Speaking; Southern Christian Leadership Conference--Finance

Other Topics: Acts 5:29; Acts 16:9; Moral Man and Immoral Society; Matthew 5:39; Matthew 5:44; John 18:11; Matthew 18:22; Amos 5:24; Galatians 6:17; Acts 17:26; Isaiah 40:3-5

Code for Location of Original: MLKEC-INP

Location of Original: Martin Luther King, Jr. Estate Collection, In Private Hands

Location of Original - Detail: ET-9, reels 5 through 7

Copy Location (1): MLKPP, Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.

Date Created: 11/29/1999 12:00:00 AM

Date Verified: 01/07/2000

Date Updated: 3/29/2017 8:45:52 AM