By Barnett Wright | The Birmingham Times In the solace of a Birmingham jail in April 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. penned what many consider “one of the greatest documents ever written by an American.” King came across an article in the afternoon edition of The Birmingham News headlined “White Clergymen Urge Local Negroes … Continue reading Why MLK’s Powerful ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’ Remains a Masterpiece of American Literature