Since 2004, during the week of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the

Birmingham Public Library Archives has sponsored the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Lecture

January 2009

“A Birmingham Lawman Remembers the Civil Rights Movement”

Dan Jordan, Jefferson County Sheriff's Department, Retired).

January 2004

“Preserving Birmingham’s Civil Rights History”

Regina Ammon, Birmingham Public Library Archives

January 2005

“Remembering Martin Luther King’s Letter from Birmingham Jail”

Jonathan Bass, Samford University

January 2006

“City Planning and Civil Rights in Birmingham, 1920-1980”

Charles Connerly, Florida State University

January 2007

“When the Blast Occurred: Remembering the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing” Jim Baggett, Birmingham Public Library Archives

January 2008

“The Convergence of the Twain: Dr. King and Bishop Carpenter—Lives in Collision”

Barry Vaughn, St. Albans Episcopal Church and the University of Alabama