Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 13, 1988)
Section II, January 13, 1988, Portland Observer, Page 7 Chronology Granger, executive director of the National Urban League, meet with President Eisenhower. September: Dr. King's book "Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story" is published. Septem ber 20: Dr. King is stabbed in the chest by Izola Curry while he is in a New York City department store autographing his recently published book. • front porch. February: The South ern Christian Leadership Confer ence (SCLC) is formed. Dr. King is elected its president. M ay 17: Dr. King delivers a speech at the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom in Wash ington, D.C. The pilgrimage was held on the third anniversary of the Supreme Court's desegregation decision. Septem ber: President Dwight D. Eisenhower federalizes the Arkansas National Guard to es cort nine black students to an all- white high school in Little Rock, Arkansas. Septem ber 9: The first civil rights act since Reconstruction is passed by Congress, creating the 1959 February 2-March 10: Mar tin and Coretta King spend several weeks in India as guests of Prime Minister Nehru, studying Gandhi's techniques of nonviolence. • tional. February 21: Dr. King is in dicted with other figures in the Montgomery bus boycott on the charge of being party to a conspir acy to hinder and prevent the oper ation of business without "just or legal cause." June 4: A United States district court rules that racial segregation on city bus lines is un constitutional. O ctober 30: Mayor W.A. "Tackey" Gayle of Montgom ery instructs the city's legal depart ment to find a legal means to stop the operation of car pools, the transportation system used during the boycott. November 13: The United State Supreme Court affirms the decision of the district court in declaring unconstitutional Alaba ma's state and local laws requiring segregation on buses. December 20: Federal injunctions prohibiting segregation on buses are served on bus company officials. Injunctions are also served on city and Alabama state officials. December 21: Montgomery buses are integrated. • 1957 January 27: An unexploded bomb is discovered on the Kings' taxes. A p ril 15: The Student Non violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) is founded to coordinate student protest at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, on a temporary basis. It becomes per manent in October 1960. May 28: Dr. King is acquitted of the tax eva sion charge by an all-white jury in Montgomery. June 24: Dr. King has a conference with John K. Ken nedy, candidate for president of the United States, about racial matters. O ctober 19-27: Dr. King is arrested at an Atlanta sit-in and is jailed on a charge of violating the state's trespass law. That charge is drop ped but King is still held on a charge of violating his probation in a traffic arrest case. He is ultimate ly transferred to Reidsville State Pri son, where he is released on a two- thousand-dollar bond. 1961 January 30: Dexter Scott, the Kings' third child, is born. May 4: The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) organizes the first group of Freedom Riders. The Freedom Riders, intent on integrating inter state buses, leaves Washington, D.C., by Greyhound bus shortly after the Supreme Court has out lawed segregation in interstate transportation terminals. • 1960 January 24: The King family moves to Atlanta. Dr. King be comes copastor, with his father, of the Ebenezer Baptist Church. Feb ruary 1: Students in Greensboro, North Carolina launch widely pub licized sit-ins which spark a wave of similar protests throughout the south. February 17: A warrent is issued for Dr. King's arrest on charges that he did not pay his 1956 and 1958 Alabama state income Civil Rights Commission and the Civil Rights Division of the Depart ment of Justice. O ctober 23: Mar tin Luther King III, the Kings' se cond child, is born. • 1958 June 23: Dr. King; Roy Wil kins, executive director of NAACP; A. Philip Randolph, civil rights ac tivist and founder of the Pullman Porter's University; and Lester 1962 Septem ber 20: James Mere dith makes his first attempt to en roll at the University of Mississippi. He is actually enrolled by Supreme Court order and is escorted onto the Oxford, Mississippi campus by U.S marshals on October 1. October 16: Dr. King meets with President Kennedy at the White House for a one-hour conference. 1963 M arch 28: Bernice Albertine, the Kings’ fourth child, is born. M arch-A pril: Sit-in demonstrations are held in Birmingham to protest segregation of eating facilities Dr. King is arrested during the demon stration. A pril 16: Dr. King writes "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" while imprisoned for demonstrating May 3, 4, 5: Eugene "B u ll" Connor, director of public safety of Birming ham, orders the use of police dogs and fire hoses on the marching pro testors. May 20: The Supreme Court of the United States rules Birmingham's segregation ordinan ces unconstitutional. June: Dr. King's book "Strength to Love" is published. June 11; Governor George C. Wallace tries to stop the court-ordered integration of the University of Alabama by "standing in the schoolhouse door" and per sonally refusing entrance to black students. June 12: Medgar Evers is assassinated in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi. A ugust 28: In Washington, D.C., the March on Washington is held. Dr. King delivers his "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Novem ber 22: Presi dent Kennedy is assassinated in Dal las, Texas. 1964 March 7: Bloody Sunday. About 650 marchers in Selma were attacked by police wielding tear gas, clubs and bullwhips. The as sault, recorded by the national media, left 70 blacks hospitalized and another 70 injured Sum mer: Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) initiates a voter-registration drive, run by black and white stu dents, called the Mississippi Sum mer Project. June: Dr. King's book "W hy We Can't W ait" is pub lished. June 21: Three civil rights workers — James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner — are reported missing after a short trip to Philadelphia, Mississippi. Their bodies are found six weeks later by FBI agents. July: Dr. King attends the signing of the Public Ac commodations Bill, part of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, by President Lyndon B. Johnson in the White House. A ugust: Riots occur in New Jersey, Illinois, and Pennsyl vania. September 18: Dr. King has an audience with Pope Paul VI at the Vatican. December 10: Dr. King receives the Nobel Prize in Oslo, Norway. • 1965 February 21: Malcolm X is assassinated in New York City. M arch 9: Unitarian minister James Reeb is beaten by four white segre gationists in Selma and dies two days later. M arch 15: President Johnson addresses the nation and Congress, describing the voting rights bill he will submit, and uses the slogan of the civil rights move ment, "W e Shall Overcome." Presents A Live Memorial Tribute in Honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. 5-7 p .m ., Jan uary 19, 1988 Channel 27, Rogers Cable TV Portland Cable Access TV 2766 N.E. Union Ave. Portland, Oregon 97212 THE IFCC THEATRE PRESENTS Vivid Satire of South Africa’s Apartheid IFCC 1 1 A M F I A A lii P.O. Box 17569 5340 N. Interstate Avenue Portland, Oregon 97217 (503) 243-7930 <*>"-1 ’• l3-15 pps M,"'nvvs B jllB sls! 2 am S88 |an. 15,16. I'P u b lit Performance ?' Wiiiningsl.nl Theatre (Pf PA) ||^ J |H I b B m H w B0 By: SELAELO MAREDI AN D STEVE FRIEDMAN Jan . 22 - Eeb. 14 IFCCThealre Note: The Jan. 15 and 17 performances are Interpreted J ; (ASL) for the hearing-impaired. '• V . : ; ; • ’ .L FREE ADMISSION "Long Road Up The Hill" Through January 23rd Contemporary print images; works by Afro-American artists Open 10 am. to 4:45 p m., Monday through Saturday For information, call 222-1741 1230 S.W. Park at Jefferson, Portland