''Letter from Birmingham City Jail''
https://okra.stanford.edu/link/document630500-013
- Author
- King, Martin Luther, Jr.
- Place Written
- Philadelphia, Pa.
- Document Date
- 5/1963
- Genre
- Pamphlet
- Document Type
- Document
- Type of Writing
- Printed -- published
- Author
- King, Martin Luther, Jr.
- Author Dates
- 1929-1968
- Author Affiliation
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference
- Document ID
- 630500-013
- Document Date
- 5/1963
- Type of Writing
- Printed -- published
- Document Type
- Document
- Status
- Cal. 8
- Place Written
- Philadelphia, Pa.
- Genre
- Pamphlet
- Document Length
- 16 pp.
- Document Note
- Enclosed in 630523-004.
- Dates
- 1954
- 4/16/1963
- 9/1962
- 3/1963
- 1/1963
- 4/12/1963
- Names
- Bell, Colin W. [American Friends Service Committee}
- Fox, George [Religious Society of Friends]
- Carpenter, C. C. Jones [Episcopal Church. Diocese of Alabama]
- King, Yolanda
- King, Martin Luther, III
- Durick, Joseph A. [Catholic Church. Diocese of Mobile-Birmingham]
- Grafman, Milton L. [Temple Emanu-El (Birmingham, Ala.)]
- Hardin, Paul [Methodist Church. Alabama-West Florida Conference]
- 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.). Dept. of Public Safety]
- Socrates
- Boutwell, Albert Burton [Birmingham (Ala.). Office of the Mayor]
- Niebuhr, Reinhold
- 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
- Elijah Muhammad
- Amos (Biblical prophet)
- Luther, Martin
- Bunyan, John
- Lincoln, Abraham
- 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
- Jefferson, Thomas
- Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns)
- Organizations
- American Friends Service Committee
- Religious Society of Friends
- Episcopal Church. Diocese of Alabama
- Catholic Church. Diocese of Mobile-Birmingham
- Temple Emanu-El (Birmingham, Ala.)
- Methodist Church. Alabama-West Florida Conference
- 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)
- Alabama. Legislature
- United States. Supreme Court
- Nation of Islam
- Ku Klux Klan
- White Citizens Council
- Spring Hill College (Mobile, Ala.)
- Birmingham (Ala.). Police Dept.
- Funtown (Atlanta, Ga.)
- Birmingham (Ala.). Dept. of Public Safety
- Birmingham (Ala.). Office of the Mayor
- Mississippi. Office of the Governor
- Alabama. Office of the Governor
- Albany (Ga.). Police Dept.
- Places
- Atlanta, Ga.
- Birmingham, Ala.
- Macedonia, Greece
- Tarsus, Turkey
- New Orleans, La.
- Africa
- Asia
- South America
- Caribbean
- Germany
- Hungary
- Montgomery, Ala.
- Albany, Ga.
- Plymouth, Mass.
- Texas
- Mississippi
- Topics
- Martin Luther King, Jr. - Arrests
- Martin Luther King, Jr. - Publications - Reprints
- Letter from a Birmingham Jail
- Afro-Americans - Civil rights
- Albany Movement
- Freedom rides
- Birmingham, 1963
- Brown vs. Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas
- Civil Disobedience
- Civil rights
- Direct action
- Jews
- Montgomery Bus Boycott
- Natural law
- Nonviolence
- Police - Complaints against
- Segregation--law and legislation
- Church and Race Relations
- Other Topics
- Matthew 5:44
- Amos 5:24
- Galatians 6:17
- Letter from a Birmingham Jail
- Code for Location of Original
- MCMLK-RWWL
- Location of Original
- Morehouse College Martin Luther King, Jr. Collection, Atlanta University Center, Robert W. Woodruff Library Archives and Special Collections, Atlanta, Ga.
- Location of Original - Detail
- 2.4.0.270
- Copy Location (1)
- MLKJP-GAMK, Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers (Series I-IV), Martin Luther King, Jr., Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Inc., Atlanta, Ga.
- Filing Info
- Box 2, folder 33
- Box 2, f 97-0051
- Box 549, folder 7
- Proquest document ID 2623861667
- Box 25, folder 17
- Box 54, folder 8
- Copy Location (2)
- SCs-AlBiCRI, Small Collections, Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
- Copy Location (3)
- SCLCE-GEU-S, Southern Christian Leadership Conference Records, 1864-2007, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga.
- Copy Location (4)
- NAACPP-DLC, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Collection, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
- Copy Location (5)
- RFKAG-MBJFK, Robert F. Kennedy, Attorney General Papers, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Boston, Mass.
- Copy Location (6)
- ACLUR-NjP-SC, American Civil Liberties Union Records, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.
- Copy Location (7)
- FDAP-NcCU, Fred D. Alexander Papers, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, N.C.
- Copy Location (8)
- AFSCR-PPAFS, American Friends Service Committee Records, American Friends Service Committee Archives, Philadelphia, Pa.
- Copy Location (9)
- MLKPP, Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.
- Date Created
- 2/24/1999 12:00:00 AM
- Date Verified
- 03/15/1999
- 3/8/2017 dalai
- 8/23/2022 dalai
- Date Updated
- 5/7/2025 1:54:33 PM
