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Record Of Arreata
January 28.1888
Arrested, Montgomery, Alabama, on charge of traveling thirty miles an
hour in twenty-five mile zone. Released on recognizance bond.
January 28.1988
Fined $10 in Montgomery police court on not-guilly plea on tra ffic
charge.
February 21.1988
Indicted with other leading figures o f Montgomery Bus Boycott on
charge of being party to a conspiracy to hinder and prevent operation of a
business without "just or legal cause.”
February 23. 1968
Booked at Montgomery jail on indictment and released on $JOO bond.
March 22.1968
Convicted after four-day trial in Montgomery Circuit Court on February
21 indictment. Fine of $500 suspended pending appeal which was not per
fected with allotted time by King’s attorneys. King paid Fine Finally under
complicated arrangement under which charges against other boycott leaders
and a group of white segregationists were dropped.
September 3,1968
Arrested on charge o f loitering (later changed to failure to obey an o f
ficer) in vicinity of Montgomery Recorder’s Court. Released on $100 bond.
September 4,1968
Convicted after nol-guilty plea on charge of failure to obey an officer.
Fourteen dollars fine paid almost immediately—over King's objections—by
Montgomery Police Commissioner Clyde C. Sellers.
Martin Luther King wee erreeted on September 3. 1968 for "loitering on the court
house steps" in M ontgom ery white trying to get into the trial of hie colleague.
Ralph Abernathy.
February 17.1980
Arrested in A tlanta on Alabama warrant following his indictment by
Montgomery County Grand Jury on two counts of perjury in connection
with the filing of 1956 and 1958 state income tax returns Released on $2,000
bond.
April 8. 1981
ure to obey police officer, obstructing sidewalk and disorderly conduct.
Received $25 fine and suspended six-month sentence on original traffic
case (see September 23. I960) in DeKalb County court.
August 10.1982
May. 1980
December 16.1981
Convicted, Albany Recorder’s Court, and placed on sixty-day probation
for July 27 vigil. Released from jail.
Arrested. DeKalb County, Georgia, on charge of driving without valid
Georgia driver's license. Released on bond.
Arrested in Albany, Georgia, demonstration on charge o f obstructing
sidewalk and parading without permit.
April 12.1963
May 28.1990
December 18. 1961
Arrested in Birmingham, Alabama on charges of parading without a per
mit and contempt of court.
Acquitted by jury of twelve white men in Montgomery Circuit Court of
charges of falsely swearing to information on I956 slate income tax return.
Second count of indictment (see Febryary 17, I960) was later dropped
Released on bail in truce that later collapsed.
April 20.1963
July 10. 1962
Released from Birmingham jail on $300 cash bond.
Paid $25 fine and received twelve month probated sentence after guilty
plea in DeKalb County court on May, I960, traffic violation.
Convicted in Albany, (Ga.) Recorder's Court of violating street and side
walk ordinance by leading parade without permit on December 16, 1961.
Received sentence of $178 or forty-five days in jail. Entered jail to serve
forty-five day term.
Arrested in St. Augustine, Florida, sit-in on charge o f violating state’s
anti-trespass law.
October 19,1980
July 12. 1982
June 13.1964
September 23.1980
Arrested in Atlanta, Georgia, sit-in; jailed on charge of violating state's
anti-trespass law.
Released against his will after $178 fine was paid by mystery man.
July 17. 1962
Released on $300 bond.
February 2.1966
Arrested in Albany city hall "prayer vigil” and tailed on charges of fail
October 22.1980
June 11.1964
Arrested in Selma. Alabama. Served five days in jail.
Sit-in charges dropped; all demonstrators except King released King was
ordered held on charge o f violating probated sentence in traffic case (see
September 23, I960).
October 26.1980
Transferred from Fulton County jail to DeKalb County jail in Decatur,
an Atlanta suburb.
October 26. 1980
Sentenced to four months in jail by DeKalb County judge who ruled that
his participation in sit-in violated terms of his probated traffic sentence
October 28.1980
Transferred to Reidsville State Prison.
“ One who breaks an unjust law must do it openly, lovingly .
. . I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience
tells him is unjust, and w illingly accepts the penalty by staying
in ja il to arouse the conscience o f the c o m m u n ity over its
injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law
.
October 27.1980
— M.L.K.
Released from Reidsville State Prison on $2,000 appeal bond.
March 7.1981
Georgia Court of Appeals remanded traffic case to DeKalb County on
grounds that original sentence should not have exceeded six months.
"The black revolution is much more than a struggle for the rights of Negroes.
It is forcing America to face all its interrelated flaws—racism, poverty,
militarism, materialism. It is exposing evils that are deeply rooted in the whole
structure of our society. It reveals systemic rather than superficial flaws and
suggests that radical reconstruction of society itself is the real issue to be
faced."
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