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ß »V ' ■ - . * l i Martin Luther King Jr. Special Edition (El|c ^ Jo rtlan b O^bseruer Jan. 14, 1998 c l8 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 Al 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 lailure to obey a police officer, obstructing the sidewalk and disorderly conduct. James Meredith makes his first attempt to enroll at the University ol 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 White House for a one-hour conference. 1963 Hie 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. Governor 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 Washington, the first large integrated protest march, is held in Washington, D C. Dr. King delivers his "1 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 White House. President Kennedy is assassi nated in Dallas, Texas. King and Rev. Ralph Abernathy visits West 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. H n v . a n d uses the congress in two days and uses the slogan of ci vii 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 One black black stud« student is killed in One rioting on the campus of all-Negro Jackson State College, Jackson, Miss. The Justice Department reports that more than 50 percent ol 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 King rents an apartment in the black ghetto of Chicago. King m eets with Elijah Muhammad, leader ol the Black century. Muslims, in Chicago. Black leaders Martin Luther King takes over a Chicago slum King Jr., A Philip Randolph, Roy building and is sued by its owner. Wilkins, and Whitney Young appeal The Supreme Court of the United for an end to the riots, "which have State rules any poll tax unconstitu proved ineffective an damaging to tional. the civil rights cause and the entire King makes a tour of Alabama nation.’ to help elect black candidates. The Alabama primary is held, the first time since Reconstruction Sanitation workers strike in that blacks have voted in any num Memphis, Tenn. bers. King leads six thousand protest An antiwar statement by Dr. ers on a march through downtown King is read at a large Washington Memphis in support of striking sani rally to protest the war in Vietnam. tation workers. Disorders break out Dr. King agrees to serve as cochair during which black youths loot stores. man ol Clergy and Laymen Con One 16-year-old is killed, 50 people cerned about Vietnam. are injured. James Meredith is shot soon al King’s last speech, entitled “I’ve ter beginning his 220-mile "March Been to the Mountain Top." is deliv Against Fear” from Memphis, Tenn., ered at the M em phis M asonic to Jackson, Miss. Temple. King launches a drive to make King is assassinated by a sniper Chicago an "open city” in regard to as he stands talking on the balcony of housing. his second-floor room at the Lorraine King is stoned in Chicago as he Motel in Memphis. He dies in St. leads a march through crowds of Joseph’s Hospital from a gunshot angry whites in Gage Park section ol wound in the neck. James Earl Ray is Chicago’s southwest side. later captured and convicted of the murder. Presidential Senator Robert Kennedy is shot in Los Angeles. He King writes his book Where Do dies the next day. We Go from Here? while in Jamaica. Ala. is ordered to desegregate all public schools. King attacks the government’s Following passage of Public Law Vietnam policy in a speech at the 98-144, President Ronald Reagan Chicago Coliseum. signs proclamation declaring the third King makes a statement about Monday in January of each year a the war in Vietnam, "Beyond Viet public holiday in honor of the birth nam,” at the Riverside Church, New day of Martin Luther King Jr. York City. 1968 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 accommodations in St. Augustine, Fla. He is jailed. Three civil rights workers - James Chaney (black) and Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner (white) - are reported missing alter a short trip to Philadelphia, Mississippi. King attends a signing of the Public Accommodations Bill, part ol the Civil Rights Act of 1964, by President Lyndon B. Johnson in the White 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 Jam es C haney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwcner are discovered by FBI agents buried near the town of Philadelphia, Mississippi. Neshoba County Sher iff Rainey andhisdeputy,Cecil Price, are allegedly implicated in the mur ders. The The 1965 1965 Voting Voting Rights Rights Act Act is 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 nomeowners in a suuuiu August 1966 protest march for desegregated housing. 1965 M alcolm X, leader of the Or- g an iza tio n of A fro -A m erican Unity and former Black Muslim leader, is m urdered by blacks in New York City. President Johnson addresses the nation and Congress. He describes the voting rights bill he will submit to marchers leave Selma lor 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 1986 M id -k B eauty Supplies Salutes D r. M a rtin L u ther King's 6 9 th B irth d ay! "All progress is precarious, ana tne solution of one problem brings us face to face with with another problem, -Dr. Martin L. King Jr High-efficiency natural gas appliances not only save you money and energy every m onth, they also w ork when the pow er goes out. N ot that this happens all the time. Strength To Love But when it does, you'll he com forted to know you can still cook on y o u r gas range, show er using y o u r gas w ater heater, and w arm y o urself by y o u r gas fireplace. 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