Letter from a Birmingham Jail
https://okra.stanford.edu/link/document630416-020
- 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.
- Document Note
- Enclosed in 630510-099.
- 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.
- Hardin, Paul
- Harmon, Noland B.
- Murray, George M.
- Ramage, Edward V.
- Stallings, Earl
- Paul, the Apostle, Saint
- Jesus Christ
- Shuttlesworth, Fred L.
- 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
- Hitler, Adolf
- Nebuchadnezzar II, King of Babylonia
- Shadrach (Biblical figure)
- Meshach (Biblical figure)
- Abednego (Biblical figure)
- Elijah Muhammad
- Amos (Biblical prophet)
- Luther, Martin
- 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.]
- Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns)
- Meredith, James
- Organizations
- Birmingham City Jail (Birmingham, Ala.)
- Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR)
- Funtown (Atlanta, Ga.)
- United States. Supreme Court
- Alabama. Legislature
- White Citizens Council
- Ku Klux Klan
- Spring Hill College (Mobile, Ala.)
- Mississippi. Office of the Governor
- Alabama. Office of the Governor
- Birmingham (Ala.). Police Dept.
- Albany (Ga.). Police Dept.
- Places
- Atlanta, Ga.
- Tarsus, Turkey
- Macedonia
- Asia
- Africa
- New Orleans, La.
- Hungary
- Germany
- Texas
- Caribbean
- South America
- Montgomery, Ala.
- Mississippi
- Plymouth, Mass.
- Albany, Ga.
- 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
- Hungary Revolution, 1956
- 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)
- TBHPG-PHC, Theodore Brinton Hetzel Papers and Graphics, 1866-1987, Haverford College, Haverford, Pa.
- Filing Info
- Box 1, folder AFSC Community Relations Executive Committee
- Box 5, folder May 1963
- Box 367, folder 6
- Box 24, folder 17
- Copy Location (2)
- BMPP-MBJFK, Burke Marshall Personal Papers, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Boston, Mass.
- Copy Location (3)
- JFKWHCSF-MBJFK, John F. Kennedy Presidential Papers, White House Central Subject Files, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Boston, Mass.
- Copy Location (4)
- CTOVP-GEU-S, C. T. and Octavia Vivian Papers, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga.
- Copy Location (5)
- 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
- 3/11/2022 dalai
- 3/19/2024 dalai
- 6/28/2024 dalai
- Date Updated
- 4/25/2025 11:12:41 AM
