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P age C 2 1 T he P ortland O bserver • J anuary 11, 1995 King Joins In Other Causes, Vietnam War Protest Equality (CORE), leaves shortly af ter the Supreme Court has outlawed segregation in interstate transporta tion terminals The bus is burned outside of Anniston, Alabama, on May 14. A mob beats the Riders upon their arrival in Birmingham. The Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, and spend forty to sixty days in Parchman Penitentiary. 1962 King is tried an convicted for leading the December march in A l bany. King is invited to join the Bir mingham protest. King is arrested at an Albany city hall prayer vigil and jailed on charges of failure to obey a police officer, obstructing the sidewalk and disorderly conduct. James Meredith makes his first attempt to enroll at the University of Mississippi. He is actually enrolled by Supreme Court order and is es corted onto the Oxford, Mississippi, campus by U.S. marshals on October 1, 1962. King meets with President John F. Kennedy at the W hite House for a 'one-hour conference. 1963 The Kings’ fourth child Bernice Albertine, is born. Sit-in demonstrations are held in Birmingham to protest segrega tion of eating facilities. Dr. King is arrested during a demonstration. King writes the “Letter from Birmingham Jail” while imprisoned for demonstrating. Eugene (“Bull”) Connor, direc tor of public safety of Birmingham, orders the use of police dogs and fire hoses upon the marching protestors (young adults and children). The Supreme Court of the United States rules Birmingham's segrega tion ordinances unconstitutional. G overnor George C. Wallace tries to stop the court-ordered inte gration of the University of Alabama by “standing in the schoolhouse door” and personally refusing entrance to black students and Justice Depart ment officials. President John F. Kennedy then federal izes the Alabama National Guard, and Governor Wallace removes him self from blocking the entrance of the Negro students. The March on W ashington, the first large integrated protest march, is heldin W ashington,D C . Dr. King delivers his “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memo rial, and afterward he and other civil rights leaders meet with President John F. Kennedy in the W hite House. President Kennedy is assassi nated in Dallas, Texas. King and Rev. Ralph Abernathy visits W est Berlin at the invitation of Mayor Willy Brandt. King has an audience with Pope Paul VI at the Vatican. King receives the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway. congress in two days and uses the slogan of civil rights movement, "We Shall Overcome.” Black and white demonstrators are beaten by sheriff’s deputies and police on horseback in Montgomery. Over three thousand protest 1966 King rents an apartment in the black ghetto of Chicago. K ing m eets w ith E lijah M uhammad, leader o f the Black Muslims, in Chicago. King takes over a Chicago slum building and is sued by its owner. The Supreme Court of the United State rules any poll tax unconstitu tional. King makes a tour of Alabama to help elect black candidates. The Alabama primary is held, the first time since Reconstruction that blacks have voted in any num bers. An antiwar statement by Dr. King is read at a large W ashington rally to protest the war in Vietnam. Dr. King agrees to serve as cochair man of Clergy and Laymen Con cerned about Vietnam. James Meredith is shot soon af ter beginning his 220-mile “March Against Fear” from Memphis, Tenn., to Jackson, Miss. King launches a drive to make Chicago an “open city” in regard to housing. King is stoned in Chicago as he leads a march through crowds of angry whites in Gage Park section of Chicago’s southwest side. 1964 Council of Federated Organiza tion (COFO) initiates the Mississippi Summer Project, a voter-registration drive organized and run by black and white students. King joins other SCLC workers in demonstrations for the integration of public accom m odations in St. Augustine, Fla. He is jailed. Three civil rights w orkers - James Chaney (black) and Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner (white) - are reported missing after a short trip to Philadelphia. Mississippi. King attends a signing of the Public Accommodations Bill, part of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, by President Lyndon B. Johnson in the W hite House. Riots occur in Harlem. One black man is killed. Riots occur in New Jersey, Illi nois, and Pennsylvania. The bodies of civil rights work ers Ja m e s C h a n e y , A ndrew Goodman, and Michael Schwener are discovered by FBI agents buried n ear the tow n o f P h iladelphia, Mississippi. Neshoba County Sher iff Rainey and his deputy, Cecil Price, are allegedly implicated in the mur ders. The 1965 Voting Rights Act is signed by President Johnson. In Watts, the black ghetto of Los Angeles, riots leave thirty-five dead, of whom twenty-eight are black. King is stoned by white homeowners in a Chicago suburb during an August 1966 protest march for desegregated housing. 1965 M alcolm X, leader o f the O r g a n iz a tio n o f A fro -A m e ric a n U nity and form er B lack M uslim lead er, is m u rdered by black s in N ew Y ork C ity. President Johnson addresses the nation and Congress. He describes the voting rights bill he will submit to marchers leave Selma for a march to Montgomery, protected by federal troops. They are joined along the way by a total of 25,000 marchers. Upon reaching the Capitol they hear an address by Dr. King. Mrs. Viola Liuzzo, wife of a Detroit Teamsters Union business agent, is shot and killed while driving a carload of marchers back to Selma. 1967 King writes his book Where Do We Go from Here? while in Jamaica. Ala. is ordered to desegregate all public schools. King attacks the governm ent's Vietnam policy in a speech at the Chicago Coliseum. King makes a statement about the war in Vietnam, “Beyond Viet nam,” at the Riverside Church, New York City. One black student is killed in rioting on the campus of all-Negro Jackson State College, Jackson, Miss. The Justice Department reports that more than 50 percent of all eli gible black voters are registered in Mississippi, Ga., Alabama, Louisi ana, and South Carolina. Twenty-three people die, 725 are injured in riots in Newark, N.J. Forty-three die, 324 are injured in the Detroit riots, the worst of the century. Black leaders Martin Luther King Jr., A. Philip Randolph, Roy Wilkins, and Whitney Young appeal for an end to the riots, “which have proved ineffective an damaging to the civil rights cause and the entire nation.” 1968 Sanitation w orkers strike in Memphis, Tenn. King leads six thousand protest ers on a march through downtown Memphis in support of striking sani tation workers. Disorders break out during which black youths loot stores. One 16-year-old is killed, 50 people are injured. King’s last speech, entitled “I ’ve Been to the Mountain Top,” is deliv e re d at the M em p h is M asonic Temple. King is assassinated by a sniper as he stands talking on the balcony of his second-floorroom at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. He dies in St. Joseph’s Hospital from a gunshot wound in the neck. James Earl Ray is later captured and convicted of the murder. P residential Senator R obert Kennedy is shot in Los Angeles. He dies the next day. 1986 Following passage of Public Law 98-144, President Ronald Reagan signs proclamation declaring the third Monday in January of each year a public holiday in honor of the birth day of Martin Luther King Jr. Margaret Carter salutes all the residents of Dist. 18 during celebration of Martin Luther King's birthday. Let's all keep hope alive! 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