Letter From a Birmingham Jail
https://okra.stanford.edu/link/document630416-041
- Author
- King, Martin Luther, Jr.
- Place Written
- Birmingham, Ala.
- Document Date
- 4/16/1963
- Genre
- Letter
- Document Type
- Letter
- Type of Writing
- Typed
- Handwritten -- other than author's hand
- Author
- King, Martin Luther, Jr.
- Author Dates
- 1929-1968
- Author Affiliation
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference
- Document ID
- 630416-041
- Document Date
- 4/16/1963
- Type of Writing
- Typed
- Handwritten -- other than author's hand
- Document Type
- Letter
- Status
- Cal. 8
- Place Written
- Birmingham, Ala.
- Genre
- Letter
- Document Length
- 21 pp.
- Dates
- 9/1962
- 4/14/1963
- 3/1963
- 4/2/1963
- 5/17/1954
- 4/12/1963
- 12/5/1955
- Names
- Carpenter, C. C. Jones [Episcopal Church. Diocese of Alabama]
- Durick, Joseph A. [Catholic Church. Diocese of Mobile-Birmingham]
- Grafman, Milton L. [Temple Emanu-El (Birmingham, Ala.)]
- Harmon, Nolan B. [Methodist Church. North Alabama Conference]
- Murray, George M. [Episcopal Church. Diocese of Alabama]
- Ramage, Edward V. [Presbyterian Church of the U.S.A. Synod of Alabama]
- Stallings, Earl [First Baptist Church (Birmingham, Ala.)]
- Paul, the Apostle, Saint
- Jesus Christ
- Shuttlesworth, Fred L. [Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR)]
- Connor, Eugene [Birmingham (Ala.). Police Dept.]
- 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
- Muhammad, Elijah [Nation of Islam]
- Amos (Biblical prophet)
- Luther, Martin
- Bunyan, John
- Lincoln, Abraham
- Jefferson, Thomas
- McGill, Ralph
- Smith, Lillian Eugenia
- Golden, Harry
- Dabbs, James McBride
- Wallace, George C. (George Corley) [Alabama. Office of the Governor]
- Barnett, Ross R. [Mississippi. Office of the Governor]
- Pritchett, Laurie [Albany (Ga.). Police Dept.]
- Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns)
- Meredith, James
- Pollard
- Organizations
- Episcopal Church. Diocese of Alabama
- Catholic Church. Diocese of Mobile-Birmingham
- Temple Emanu-El (Birmingham, Ala.)
- Methodist Church. North Alabama Conference
- Presbyterian Church of the U.S.A. Synod of Alabama
- First Baptist Church (Birmingham, Ala.)
- Birmingham (Ala.). City Jail
- Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR)
- Funtown (Atlanta, Ga.)
- United States. Supreme Court
- White Citizens Council
- Ku Klux Klan
- Nation of Islam
- 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
- Africa
- New Orleans, La.
- Germany
- Hungary
- Texas
- South America
- Caribbean
- Montgomery, Ala.
- Mississippi
- Albany, Ga.
- Plymouth, Mass.
- Topics
- Birmingham, 1963
- Letter from a Birmingham Jail
- Police - Complaints against
- Direct action
- Sit-ins
- Freedom rides
- Martin Luther King, Jr. - Critics
- Martin Luther King, Jr. - Political and Social views
- Martin Luther King, Jr. - Publications
- Nonviolence
- Brown vs. Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas
- Church and Race Relations
- Martin Luther King, Jr. - Arrests
- Civil Disobedience
- Montgomery Bus Boycott
- Afro-Americans--Intimidation of
- Natural law
- Discrimination in public accommodations
- Other Topics
- Matthew 5:44
- Amos 5:24
- Galatians 6:17
- Code for Location of Original
- GBP-ABH
- Location of Original
- George Bagley Papers, Samford University Special Collection and University Archives, Birmingham, Ala.
- Copy Location (1)
- MLKPP, Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.
- Date Created
- 3/17/2022 12:00:00 AM
- Date Verified
- 6/9/2022 dalai
- 6/28/2024 dalai
- Date Updated
- 4/25/2025 11:23:07 AM
