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2003 special edition
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Saluting Martin Luther King Jr.
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Timeline
• Gov. George C. Wallace tries
to stop the court ordered integra
tion of the University of Alabama
by "standing in the schoolhouse
door” and personally refusing en
trance to black students and Jus
tice Department officials. Presi
dent John F. Kennedy then feder
alizes the Alabama National Guard
and Gov. Wallace removes him
self from blocking the entrance of
the students.
• Medgar Evers, NA ACP leader
in Jackson, Miss., is assassinated
at his home.
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• The March on Washington,
the first large-scale integrated
protest march, is held in Wash-
ington, D.C. Dr. King delivers his
"I Have a Dream" speech on the
steps of the Lincoln Memorial,
Afterwards he and other civil-
rights leaders meet with Presi-
dent John F. Kennedy in the
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King urged President Johnson's challenge for Congress to pass
constitu tion a l legislation th a t had been deadlocked upon the
assassination o f President Kennedy on November 2 2, 1 96 3.
Publicly supporting Johnson through the Civil Rights Act and a
decisive reelection in 1 96 4, King expressed o ptim ism that
Johnson's term would ben efit African Am ericans until the April 4,
1 9 6 7 "Beyond Vietnam ” speech revealed King's disillusion m en t
with Johnson’s progress.
White House.
Gov. Wallace orders Alabama state troopers to stop
the court-ordered integration of Alabama's elementary
and high schools until he is enjoined by court injunc
tion. Four young girls are killed in a Birmingham church
bombing.
President Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
“All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity
and importance and should be undertaken
with painstaking excellence. ”
— M artin Luther King Jr.
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• The Council of Federated Organizations initiates
the Mississippi Summer Project, a voter-registration
drive organized and run by black and white students;
Dr. King joins other SCLC workers in a demonstration
for the integration of public accommodations in St.
Augustine, Fla. He is jailed.
• Dr. King's book. Why We Can't Wait, is published
by Harper & Row; Three civil-rights workers, James
Chaney (black), Andrew Goodman and Michael
Schwemer (both white), are reported missing after a
short trip to Philadelphia. Miss.
• Dr. King attends the signing of the Public Accom
modations Bill, (Part of the Civil Rights Act ot 1964) by
President Lyndon B. Johnson in the White House.
• Riotsoccur in Harlem, N.Y. One black man is killed.
Riots occur in New Jersey, Illinois and Pennsylvania.
• The bodies of civil-rights workers James Chaney,
Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwemer are discov
ered by FBI agents buried near the town of Philadelphia,
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Jean Malary, owner of Affordable Electric, and crew provides duct bank work.
Although M alcolm X continued to reject King's
nonviolent, integrationist approach', the two
had a brief, cordial encounter on March 26,
1 9 6 4 as King le ft a press conference a t the
U.S. Capitol. Soon thereafter. M alcolm wired
King to o ffe r his support o f King's campaign in
St. Augustine, Florida.
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commit themselves to the glories of love.
W here evil men would seek to perpetu
ate an unjust status quo, good men must
seek to bring into bein g a real order
of justice.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
G r e g o r y P. O liv e r o s
Attorney At Law
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TriMet has engaged our community and changed lives
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TriMet is innovative, flexible and responsive, and has
given us the dignity and respect we deserve. May others
follow in their footsteps.
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sa id , p e o p le w ill f o r g e t w h a t y o a d id , b a t
p e o p le w ill n e v e r f o r g e t ho w y o n m a d e th em
fe e l."
- Maya Angelou
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