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King Joins In Other Causes, Vietnam War Protest
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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
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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
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