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1959
• Dr. Kingmeets with Walter Reuther, president ol the United Auto Workers Union, in Detroit. Dr.andM rs.
King spend a month in India studying Gandhi's techniques ot nonviolence as guests ot Prime Minister
Jawaharal Nehru.
1960
Officers escort the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. from ja il to
county courthouse in Atlanta for a hearing. Oct. 25, 1960.
All jailed sit-in demonstrators were released except for
King, who was held on a charge of violating a probated
sentence in a traffic-arrest case and eventually released
from the Reidsville State Prison on a $2,000 bond.
•
The King family moves to Atlanta.
Dr. King becomes co-pastor, with his
father, of the Ebenezer Baptist Church.
The first lunch-coui.’er sit-in to deseg­
regate eating facilities is held by stu­
dents in Greensboro, N. C.
•
A warrant is issued for Dr. King’s
arrest on charges that he had falsified
his 1956 and 1958 Alabama state in­
come-tax returns. He is acquitted by an
all-whitejury.
•
The Student Nonviolent Coordi­
nating Committee is founded to coordi­
nate student protests at Shaw Univer­
sity in Raleigh, N. C.
•
Dr. King and A. Philip Randolph
announce plans for picketing both the
Republican and Democratic National
Conventions. Dr. King meets with John
F. Kennedy (candidate for President of
the United States) about racial matters.
•
Dr. King is arrested at an Atlanta
sit-in and is jailed on a charge of violat­
ing the state’s trespassing law. All
jailed demonstrators are released ex­
cept Dr. King, who is held on a charge
of violating a probated sentence in a
traffic-arrest case. He is transferred to
the Dekalb County Jail in Decatur, Ga„
and is then transferred to the Reidsville
State Prison. He is released from the
Reidsville State Prison on a$2,000 bond.
Supreme Court order and is escorted
onto the Oxford, Miss, campus by U.S.
Marshals.
• Dr. King meets with President John
F. Kennedy at the White House for a
one-hour conference.
1963
• The King’s fourth child, Bernice
Albertine, is born.
• Sit-in demonstrations are held in
Birmingham to protest segregation ot
eating facilities. Dr. King is arrested
during a demonstration. Dr. King writes
the "Letter froma Birmingham Jail” while
imprisoned for demonstrating.
• Eugene “Bull’’ Connor, director of
public safety of Birmingham, orders the
use of police dogs and fire hoses against
the marching protesters, including
young adults and children.
• The Supreme Court of the United
States rules Birmingham segregation
ordinances unconstitutional. Dr. King’s
book. Strength to Love, is published by
Harper & Row.
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., President of the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference, and Mathew Ahmann,
Executive Director of the National Catholic Conference for
Interrracial Justice, in a crowd at the 1963 Civil Rights
March on Washington.
1961
• A third child, Dexter Scott, is born to Dr. and Mrs. King.
• The first group of Freedom Riders, with the intent of integrating interstate buses, leaves Washington, D.C.
by Greyhound bus. The group, organized by the Congress lor Racial Equality, leaves shortly alter the Supreme
Court has outlawed segregation in interstate transportation terminals. The bus is burned outside of Anniston,
Ala. on May 14. A mob beats the Freedom Riders upon their arrival in Birmingham, Ala. The Freedom Riders
are arrested in Jackson, Miss., and spend 40 to 60 days in Parchman Penitentiary.
• Dr. King arrives in Albany. Ga„ in response to a call from Dr. W. G. Anderson, the leader of the Albany
Movement to desegregate public facilities, which began in January 1961; Dr. King is arrested at an Albany
demonstration. He is charged with obstructing the sidewalk and parading without a permit.
1962
• Dr. King is tried and convicted for leading the December march in Albany, Ga. Dr. King is invited to join
the protests in Birmingham. Dr. 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 later enrolled by
“Property is intended to serve life, and
no matter how much we surround it
with rights and respect, it has no per­
sonal being. It is part of the earth man
walks on. It is not man. ”
Leaders march from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial during the Civil Rights
March on Washington, D.C., August 28, 1963. In the front row, from left are: Whitney M. Young,
Jr., Executive Director o f the National Urban League: Roy Wilkins, Executive Secretary o f the
National Association for the Advancement o f Colored People: A. Philip Randolph. Brotherhood of
Sleeping Car Porters, American Federation of Labor (AFL), and a former vice president o f the
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO); Walter P.
Reuther, President. United Auto Workers Union; and Arnold Aronson, Secretary o f the Leadership
Conference on Civil Rights.
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