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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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