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Page 8, Portland Observer, January 9, 1986 1956 continued D ecem ber Federal injunctions prohibiting segregation on buses are served on city and bus com pany officials and state officials. On the 21st, M ontgom ery buses were integrated. 1957 February Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SC LC) is founded. Dr. King is elected its first president. King appears on the cover of Time magazine. 1961 M ay First group o f Freedom Riders, organized by C O R E, leaves Washington, D .C ., shortly after the Supreme Court has outlawed segregation in interstate transportation terminate. The bus is burned outside A nniston, A la b a m a , the Freedom Riders are beaten in Birmingham and arrested in Jackson, Mississippi They spend 40 to 80 days in Parchman Penitentiary D ecem ber Dr. King arrives in A lbany, Georgia, in response to a call from the leader of the Albany M ovem ent to desegregate public facilities. King is arrested at a demonstration M ay King delivers "Give Us the Ballot" speech at the Lincoln Memorial in W a s h in g to n , D .C . on the third anniversary o f the B ro w n de 1962 cision. S e p te m b e r President Eisenhower federalizes the Arkansas National Guard to escort nine N egro students to an all-w h ite high school in Little Rock. The first civil rights act since Reconstruction is passed, creat ¡ng the Civil Rights Commission and the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department. 1958 King participates in ona of the many lunch counter sit-ins held during 1900. "A true revolution o f values will soon cause us to question the fairness a n d justice o f m any o f our past and present policies. A true revolution o f values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast between poverty a n d wealth. W ith righteous indignation, it w ill look across the seas a n d see individual capitalists o f the West investing huge sums o f money in Asia. A fric a and South A m erica only to take the p ro fits o ut with no concern f o r the social betterm ent o f the countries, a n d say, ‘This is n ot ju s t '! ” — 1968 February King is tried and convicted for leading a march in Albany. M ay King is invited to join the Birmingham protests. July King is arrested at an Albany city hall prayer vigil. (Continued on next page June Dr. King, Roy W ilkins, A . Philip Randolph and Lester Granger meet w ith President Eisenhower. S e p te m b e r King is arrested in the vicinity of the M o n tg o m e ry Recorder's Court and released on $100 bond. King is convicted and fine is paid oy M ontgom ery Police Commissioner over King's objection. King's book Stride Tow ard Freedom: The M ontgom ery Story is published. 1959 February Dr. and M rs. King begin a m on th -lo n g visit to India to study Gandhi's techniques of non violence. Dr. Martin Luther King. JR., atudiea Qandhl'a phlloaophy of non violence. which will become the guiding light In hla queet for free dom. 1960 J an u ary King family m oves to Atlanta. King becomes co-pastor of Ebe nezer Baptist Church. February First lu n ch -co u n ter sit-in is held by students in Greensboro, North Carolina. A p ril The Student N o nvio len t C oordinating C o m m itte e (S N C C I is founded at S haw University in Raleigh, N orth Carolina. D r. King and James Lawson are the keynote speakers. June Dr. King and A . Philip Randolph announce plans to picket the Republican and Democratic national conventions. O c to b e r King is arrested w ith other demonstrators at an Atlanta sit-in on the charge of violating Georgia's trespass law . All of the arrested dem onstrators are released except Dr. King. H e is released later from Reidsville State Prison on a $2,000 bond. “ Every imas and then I think about inv * < av n death, and I think alxxit my own funeral__ I don’t want a long funeral. And if you get somelxxly to deliver tlie »ulogy tell them not to talk too long.... lei I them not to mention that I iavea \o lx ‘l Peaee P rize.... Jell them not to mention that I have three )i’ four hundred other awards__ Id like somelxxly to mention that lay that M artin Luther king. ,lr.. tried to give his life serving others. I’d like for somelxxh to sax that day that M artin Luther king. Jr., tried to lovesomelxxh— “ Say that I was a drum major Idr just ire. Sa> that I was a drum major for peace, t hat I was a drum major for right(xxisness. And all >f I,ie other shallow things will not matter. I won’t have any money to leave behind. I won’t have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just want to leave a eominitted life lx ‘hind.” Di. Multili I.lillui k in g . Jr.. K.I miw zh IliiphM ( Im n li. Minnin. < n m g iii. February 1 .1‘ W»K
