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Martin Luther King Jr. wrote this letter in 1963 to respond to white clergymen who criticized his nonviolent civil rights campaign in Birmingham, Alabama. He argued that injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere and that direct action is necessary to achieve freedom.
Casey White, a murder suspect, escaped from an Alabama jail in 2022 with the help of corrections officer Vicky White, who later died by suicide. He pleaded guilty to prison escape and was sentenced to life imprisonment with the possibility of parole.
A march by over 1,000 school students in Birmingham, Alabama on May 2–10, 1963, to protest segregation. The event sparked national attention and federal action, but also faced violence and opposition from police and segregationists.
In 1963, while jailed in Birmingham, Alabama, during anti-segregation protests, King penned the famous words, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
A Justice Department investigation concluded that a small Mississippi town piled more than $1.7 million in fines on its residents and then jailed them in an unconstitutional debtor's prison when ...
Learn about the history and variations of this traditional American folk song, also known as "Birmingham Jail". See the lyrics, recordings, and media appearances of this melancholy ballad.
One man paid a fine, but the remaining nine — eight of whom were Friendship students —chose to take the sentence of 30 days hard labor at the York County Prison Farm. Their choosing jail over a fine or bail marked a first in the Civil Rights Movement since the 1960 Nashville sit-ins, and it sparked the "jail, no bail" strategy that came to ...
Aniah Blanchard was a college student who disappeared and was killed in Alabama in October 2019. Her body was found a month later, and a suspect, Ibraheem Yazeed, was arrested and charged with capital murder.