The fact that slaves were sold in St. Augustine isn't in dispute; in 1827, the young New England writer Ralph Waldo Emerson passed through and saw a slave auction in full swing. When King came in 1964 ...
For a week in 1964, the jail was the epicenter of America's civil rights movement, as Martin Luther King Jr. and several rabbis were incarcerated.
On Good Friday 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. and 50 others were charged with violating a court order against mass demonstrations. He was arrested and taken to the city jail in Birmingham, Alabama, where ...
A 21-year-old is accused of a shooting someone in an apparent road rage incident after the victim approached his car at a ...
As MLK noted in his "Letter from Birmingham Jail," written on April 16, 1963: "We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one ...
ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. — The future of the St. Johns County jail, where civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. was held in 1964, is uncertain after an application to demolish the historic ...
The Savannah Police have arrested a 21-year-old and charged him with murder tied to a fatal shooting near Martin Luther King ...
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - Two people are in jail after a driver crashed his car on Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway. A Wilmington Police Department (WPD) unit saw a car drive past at a high speed on Feb ...
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The jailhouse bench where Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his famous "letter from a Birmingham jail" has arrived at the Museum of the American Revolution. One may wonder ...