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Miss. NeshobaCounty Sheriff Rainey andhisdeputy,
Cecil Price are implicated in the murders.
• Dr. King and Rev. Ralph Abernathy visit West
Berlin at the invitation of Mayor Willy Brandt. Dr.
King has an audience with Pope Paul VI at the Vatican.
Dr. King receives the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo,
Norway.
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• Malcolm X, leadet of the Organization of Afro-
American Unity and former Black Muslim leader, is
murdered in New York City.
• A group of marchers led by Southern Christian
Leadership Conference’s Hosea Williams are beaten
when crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge on their
planned route to Montgomery from Selma, Ala. Their
attackers were state highway patrolmen. An order by
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. looks at the
Gov. Wallace had prohibited the march.
• Unitarian minister James Reeb is beaten by four glass door o f his rented beach cottage in St.
white segregationists in Selma. He dies twodays later. Augustine, Fla., that was shot into on June 5,
• President Johnson addresses the nation and Con 1964. No one was in the house at the time of
gress. He describes the voting-rights bill he will the shooting. King was in St. Augustine to
submit to Congress in two days and uses the slogan meet with other integration leaders.
of theCivil Rights Movement, "We Shall Overcome."
• Sheriffs deputies and police on horseback in Montgomery beat black and white demonstrators. Over 3,000
protest marchers leave Selma for a march to Montgomery protected by federal troops. They are joined along
the way by 25,000 marchers. Upon reaching the capitol, they hear an address by Dr. King.
• Mrs. Viola Liu/zo, wife of a Detroit Teamsters Union business agent, is shot and killed while driving a
carload of marchers back to Selma.
• The 1965 Voting Rights Act is signed by President Johnson.
• In Watts, the largely black ghetto of Los Angeles, riots leave 35 dead. Twenty-eight are black.
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