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Dr. Martin Luther King's Chronology
Church Women United Holds Conference
Continued From Page 11
A p r il 7 9 Dr King lies in state at
Spelman College in Atlanta, Geor
gia. M ourners file by at the rate of
tw elve hundred per hour. A p r il 8:
Coretta King, Yolanda King, M artin
King III, Dexter King, and Ralph
A bernathy lead a m em orial march
for Dr. King in M em phis. A p r il 9:
The funeral o f Dr. King is held at
the Ebenezer Baptist C hurch. He is
laid to rest at the South View Ceme
tery.
m edia, le ft 70 blacks hospitalized
and another 70 injured. S u m m e r:
C ouncil o f Federated Organizations
(COFO) initiates a voter-registration
drive, run by black and w hite stu
dents, called the M ississippi Sum
mer Project.
J u n e : Dr. King's
book "W h y W e C an 't W a it" is pub
lished. J u n e 21: Three civil rights
w orkers — Jam es Chaney, A ndrew
G oodm an, and M ichael Schwerner
are reported missing after a short
trip to Philadelphia, M ississippi.
Their bodies are fo un d six weeks
later by FBI agents. J u ly : Dr. King
attends the signing o f the Public A c
com m od atio ns Bill, part o f the Civil
Rights A c t o f 1964, by President
Lyndon B. Johnson in the W h ite
House.
A u g u s t: Riots o ccur in
N ew Jersey, Illinois, and Pennsyl
vania. S e p te m b e r 18: Dr. King has
an audience w ith Pope Paul VI at
the V atican.
D e c e m b e r 10: Dr.
King receives the Nobel Prize in
Oslo, N orw ay.
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1 9 6 7 J a n u a ry : Dr. King w rites his
book "W h e re Do W e Go from
Here?” w hile in Jam aica, W est In
dies. M a rc h 12: Alabam a is o rd e r
ed to desegregate all public schools.
M a rc h 25: Dr. King attacks the
gove rn m e nt's Vietnam policy in a
speech at the C hicago Coliseum.
A p r il 4: Dr. King makes a statem ent
about the w ar in Vietnam at the
Riverside C hurch in New York City.
J u ly 12-17: T w en ty-three people
die and 725 are injured in the riots in
N ew ard, New Jersey. J u ly 23-30:
F orty-three die and 324 are injured
in th e D etroit riots. J u ly 26: Dr.
King, A . Philip Randolph, Roy W il
kins, and W h itn e y Y oung, Jr. (exe
cutive director o f th e National U r
ban League) appeal fo r an end to
the riots. N o v e m b e r 27: Dr. King
announces the fo rm a tio n by SCLC
o f a Poor People's Cam paign, w ith
the aim o f representing the p ro
blems o f poor blacks and w hites.
By some hard-sought fact they teach.'
, Choose the good you want to happen -
It surrounds you in the “now”.
[ You can make or change the present...
I Let God's wisdom show you how!
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F e b ru a ry
12: Sanitation
w orkers strike in M em phis, Tennes
see.
M a rc h 28: Dr. King leads
six thousand protestors on a march
th rough d o w n to w n M em phis in
support o f striking sanitation w o rk
ers.
Disorders break o ut during
w hich black yo uth s loo t stores.
One person is killed, fifty people are
injured. A p r il 3: Dr. King delivers
"I'v e Been to the M o u n ta in to p " at
the M em phis M asonic Tem ple. A p
ril 4: Dr. King is sh ot at the Lorraine
M otel in M em phis. He dies in St.
Jo sep h's H ospital. A p r il 4-11: Riots
erupt in 125 cities around th e co u n
try, including th e natio n's capital.
1 9 6 6 : Dr. King rents an apartm ent
in a Chicago g h e tto . F e b ru a ry 23:
In C hicago, Dr. King m eets w ith
Elijah M uham m ad, leader o f the
Nation o f Islam. M a rc h : Dr. King
takes over a Chicago slum building
and is sued by its ow ner. M a rc h
25: The Suprem e C ourt o f the
U nited States rules th a t any poll
tax is u nco n stitu tio n a l.
M a y 16:
Dr. King agrees to serve as cochair
man o f Clergy and Laymen Con
cerned about V ietnam . An antiw ar
statem ent by Dr. King is read at a
large W a shington, D .C ., rally to
protest the w ar in Vietnam . J u n e :
S tokely
Carmichael and
W illie
Ricks, both o f SNCC, use the slo
gan "B la c k P o w e r." J u n e 6: James
M eredith is shot soon after begin
ning his 220-mile "M a rc h A gainst
Fear" from M em phis, Tennessee,
to Jackson, M ississippi. J u ly 10:
Dr. King launches a drive to make
Chicago an "o p e n c ity " in regard to
housing.
second day, 1/27/89, will begin at
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p.m., in the evening. There is a reg
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There will be workshops. Economic
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1 9 6 5 F e b ru a ry 21: M alcolm X is
assassinated in New York City.
M a rc h 9: Unitarian m inister James
Reeb is beaten by fo ur w hite segre
g ationists in Selma and dies tw o
days later.
M a rc h 15: President
Johnson addresses the nation and
Congress, describing the voting
rights bill he w ill subm it, and uses
the slogan o f the civil rights m ove
m ent,
"W e
Shall
O ve rco m e."
M a rc h 21-25: Over three thousand
protest m archers leave Selma fo r a
m arch to M ontgom ery, protected
by federal troops. They are joined
along the w ay by a total o f tw e n ty-
five thousand m archers.
Upon
reaching the capitol they hear on
address by Dr. King. M a rc h 25:
Viola Liuzzo is shot and killed w hile
driving a m archer fro m M ontgom ery
to Selma.
A u g u s t 6: The 1965
V o tin g Rights A c t is signed by Pre
sident Jo hn son .
A u g u s t 11-16:
T h irty-five people die in riots in the
W a tts area o f Los Angeles, C alifor
nia.
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