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Martin Luther King Jr. Special Edition
Jan. 14, 1998
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King Faces Arrest After Arrest In Freedom Fight
1958
King, along with Roy Wilkins of
the NAACP, A Philip Randolph,
and Lester Granger, meets with Presi
dent Dwight D. Eisenhower.
King is arrest on a charge of
loitering (later changed to "failure to
obey an officer") in the vicinity of the
Montgomery Recorder's Court He
is released on $100 bond.
King is convicted after pleading
“not guilty” on the charge of failure
to obey an officer. The fine is paid
almost immediately, over Dr. King’s
objection, by Montgomery Police
Commissioner Clyde C. Sellers.
King’s book Stride Toward Free
dom: The Montgomery Story is pub
lished by Harper & Row.
King is stabbed in the chest by
Mrs. Izola Curry, 42, who is subse
quently alleged to be mentally de-
ranged. The stabbing occurs in the
heart of Harlem while Dr. King is
autographing his recently published
book. His condition is said to be
serious but not critical.
1959
King meets with Walter Reuther,
president of the Untied Auto W ork
ers union in Detroit.
Dr . and Mrs. King spend a month
in India study ingG andhi’s techniques
of nonviolence, as guests of Prime
Minister Nehru.
1960
The King family moves to At
lanta., King becomes copastor, with
his father, of the Ebenezer Baptist
Church.
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The first lunch counter sit-in to
desegregate eating facilities is held
by students in Greensboro, N. C.
A warrant is issued for King’s
arrest on charges that he had falsified
his 1956 and 1958 Alabama state
income tax returns.
The Student Nonviolent Coor
d in ating C om m ittee (S N C C ) is
founded to coordinate student pro
tests at Shaw University, Raleigh,
N.C.
King is acquitted of the tax eva
sion charge by an all-white jury in
Montgomery.
King and A. Philip Randolph
announce plans for picketing both
the Republican and Democratic na
tional conventions.
King has a conference with John
F. Kennedy, candidate for president
of the United States, about racial
matters.
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King is arrested at an Atlanta
sit-in and is jailed on a charge of
violating the slate’s trespass law.
The A tlantachargesare dropped
All jailed demonstrators are released
except for Dr. King, who is ordered
held on a charge of violating a pro-
hated sentence in a traffic arrestcase.
He is transferred to the DeKalb
County Jail in Decatur, Ga. and is
then transferred lothe Reidsville State
Prison. He is released from the
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