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Dr. Martin Luther King's Chronology
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I have a dream...
Montgomery bus boycott.
The
Montgomery Improvement Associ­
ation is formed and Dr. King is
unanimously elected president of
the organization. December 10:
The Montgomery bus company sus­
pends service in black neighbor­
hoods.
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1956 January 30: A bomb is
thrown onto the porch of the Kings'
Montgomery home. Coretta King,
Yolanda King, and church member
Lucy Williams are in the house: no
one is injured. February 2: A suit is
filed in federal district court asking
that Montgomery's travel segrega­
tion laws be declared unconstitu­
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.
Metro honors the memory and the dreams
of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The Metropolitan Service District, your regional government,
handles region-wide concerns in the urban areas of Clackamas,
Multnomah and Washington counties. Metro is responsible for
solid waste management, operation of the Metro Washington Park
Zoo, transportation planning, technical services to local govern­
ments, and the Oregon Convention Center.
Metro is located at 2000 SW First Ave., Portland, Ore. 97201-
5398. For more information, call the Public Affairs department
at 221-1646.
1957 January 27: An unexploded
bomb is discovered on the Kings'
front porch. February: The South­
ern Christian Leadership Confer­
ence (SCLC) is formed. Dr. King is
elected its president. May 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
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THROUGHOUT THE SOUTH, African-American men, women and :
children were determined to win their freedom-Even in the face of *;
death!
Dwight D. Eisenhower federalizes
the Arkansas National Guard to es­
cort nine black students to an all-
white high school in Little Rock,
Arkansas. September 9: The first
civil rights act since Reconstruction
is passed by Congress, creating the
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 W il­
kins, executive director of NAACP;
A. Philip Randolph, civil rights ac­
tivist and founder of the Pullman
Porter's University; and Lester
Granger, executive director of the
National Urban League, meet with
President Eisenhower. Septem ber:
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.
1959 February 2-M arch 10: Mar­
tin and Coretta King spend several
weeks in India as guests of Prime
Minister Nehru, studying Gandhi's
techniques of nonviolence.
1960 January 24: The King family ; '
moves to Atlanta. Dr. King be- .;
comes copastor, with his father, o f* ,
the Ebenezer Baptist Church. Feb-'?
ruary 1: Students in Greensboro, ‘.J
North Carolina launch widely pub-*;
licized sit-ins which spark a wave of T
similar protests throughout th e .;
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,
taxes. A p ril 15: The Student N on-5,
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.
October 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.
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