NWHM Presents: Letter From a Birmingham Jail: A Conversation with Mrs. Willie Mackey King 

In April 1963, days after Martin Luther King, Jr. was jailed for public protests in Birmingham, Alabama, he began smuggling notes out of jail through his lawyers. The notes, which became the “Letter From a Birmingham Jail”, were written along newspaper edges, table napkins, toilet paper and whatever scraps of paper that Dr. King could find to write on. The job of deciphering King’s handwritten notes and transcribing them fell to Mrs. Willie Mackey King, a member of the executive staff for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference under the leadership of Dr. King.
On August 8, 2021, NWHM welcomed Mrs. King for a conversation moderated by Shelley Stokes-Hammond about this extraordinary moment in history and Mrs. King’s life of service and activism.