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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.
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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