Letter from a Birmingham Jail
https://okra.stanford.edu/link/document630416-034
- 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
- 4/25/2025 11:23:00 AM
