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Dr. King Chronology (2)
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Chronology (Section 2 of 5)
June 4: A United States district court rules that racial segregation
on city bus lines is unconstitutional.
June 27: Dr. King is the guest speaker at the annual NAACP convention in San Francisco.
August 10: Dr. King is a speaker before the platform committee of
the Democratic Party in Chicago.
October 30: Mayor Gayle of Montgomery instructs the city’s legal
department “to 昀椀le such proceedings as it may deem proper to
stop the operation of car pools and transportation systems growing out of the boycott.”
n 1958
February 8: Dr. King is a guest speaker at a legislative conference of the American Jewish Congress in New York.
June 23: Dr. King, along with Roy Wilkins of the NAACP, A. Philip
Randolph, and Lester Granger, meets with President Dwight D.
Eisenhower.
September 3: Dr. King is arrested on a charge of loitering (later
changed to “failure to obey an of昀椀cer”) in the vicinity of the Montgomery Recorder’s Court. He is released on one hundred dollars
bond.
November 13: The United States Supreme Court af昀椀rms the decision of the three-judge district court in declaring unconstitutional
Alabama’s stale and local laws requiring segregation on buses.
September 4: Dr. King is convicted after pleading “not guilty on
the charge of failure to obey an of昀椀cer. The 昀椀ne is paid almost immediately, over Dr. King’s objection, by Montgomery Police Commissioner Clyde C. Sellers.
December 20: Federal injunctions prohibiting segregation on
buses are served on city and bus company of昀椀cials in Montgomery. Injunctions are also served on state of昀椀cials.
September 17: Dr. King’s book Stride Toward Freedom: The
Montgomery Story is published by Harper & Row.
September 20: Mrs. Izola
Curry, forty-two, who is subsequently alleged to be mentally
deranged, stabs Dr. King in
the chest. The stabbing occurs
in the heart of Harlem while Dr.
King is autographing his recently published book.
December 21: Montgomery buses
are integrated.
n 1957
January 27: An unexploded bomb
is discovered on Dr. and Mrs. King’s
front porch.
n 1959
January 10-11: The Southern
Christian Leadership Conference
SCLC) is formed at the Ebenezer
Baptist Church, Atlanta. Dr. King is
elected its president.
January 30: Dr. King meets
with Walter Reuther, president of the United Auto Workers union, in Detroit. February 2-March 10. Dr. and Mrs.
King spend a month in India
studying Gandhi’s techniques
of nonviolence, as guests of
February 18: Time magazine puts
Dr. King on its cover.
March 6, 1957: Dr. King stood with Dr. Kwame Nkrumah in Accra, Ghana, West Africa as the 昀氀ag of European colonialism was
lowered and the Ghanaian 昀氀ag was raised, thereby through his
presence linking the American Civil Rights movement with African
national independence movements.
May 17: Dr. King delivers a speech for the Prayer Pilgrimage For
Freedom celebrating the third anniversary of the Supreme Court’s
desegregation decision. The speech, entitled-Give Us the Ballot,”
is given at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.
Prime Minister Nehru
August 20: Dr. King delivers a speech to the National Bar Association in Milwaukee.
November 29: Dr. King submits his resignation, effective on the
fourth Sunday of January 1960, as pastor of the Dexter Avenue
Baptist Church.
n 1960
June 13: Dr. King has a conference with the vice president of the
United States, Richard M. Nixon.
January 24: The King family moves to Atlanta. Dr. King to becomes co-pastor, with his father, of the Ebenezer Baptist Church.
September 2: Dr. King addresses a Labor Day seminar on the
twenty-昀椀fth anniversary of the Highlander Folk School, Monteagle,
Tennessee.
February 1: The 昀椀rst lunch counter sit-in to desegregate eating
facilities is held by students in Greensboro, North Carolina.
September: President Dwight D. Eisenhower federalizes the Arkansas National Guard to escort nine Negro students to an all
white high school in Little Rock, Arkansas.
September 9: The 昀椀rst civil rights act since Reconstruction is
passed by Congress, creating the Civil Rights Commission and
the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice.
October 23: A second child, Martin Luther III, is born to Dr. and
Mrs. King.
February 17: A warrant is issued for Dr. King’s arrest on charges that he did not pay his 1956 and 1958 Alabama state income
taxes.
April 15: The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
(SNCC) is founded to coordinate student protest at Shaw University, Raleigh, North Carolina, on a temporary basis. (it is to become a permanent organization in October, 1960.) Dr. King and
James Lawson are the keynote speakers at the Shaw University
founding.
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