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''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
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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
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