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Dr. King Chronology (4)
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Chronology (Section 4 of 5)
nedy then federalizes the Alabama National Guard, and Governor
Wallace removes himself from blocking the entrance of the Negro
students.
June 12: Medgar Evers, NAACP leader in Jackson, Mississippi, is
assassinated in the early-morning darkness by a ri昀氀e bullet, at his
home. His memorial service is held in Jackson on
June 15: and he is buried in Arlington National Cemetery, Washington, D.C., on June 19.
August 28: The March on Washington, the 昀椀rst large integrated
protest march, is held in Washington, D.C. Dr. King and other civil
rights leaders meet with President John F. Kennedy in the White
House, and afterwards Dr. King delivers his “I Have a Dream”
speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
September: Dr. King’s book Strength to Love is published by
Harper & Row.
September 2-10: Governor Wallace orders the Alabama state
troopers to stop the court-ordered integration of Alabama’s elementary and high schools until he is enjoined by court injunction
from doing so. By September 10 speci昀椀c schools are actually integrated by court order.
November 22: President Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas,
Texas.
n 1964
Summer: COFO (Council of Federated Organizations) initiates
the Mississippi Summer Project, a voter-registration drive organized and run by black and white students.
June 21: Three civil rights workers-James Chaney (black), Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner (white)-are reported
missing after a short trip to Philadelphia.
May-June: Dr. King joins other SCLC workers in demonstrations
for the integration of public accommodations in St. Augustine,
Florida. He is jailed.
February 21: Blacks in New York City murder Malcolm X, leader
of the Organization of Afro-American Unity and former Black Muslim leader.
n 1965
March 7: Marching demonstrators (from SNCC and SCLC led
by SCLC’s Hosea Williams are beaten when attempting to march
across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on their planned march to Montgomery, Alabama, from Selma, Alabama, by state highway patrolmen under the direction of Al Lingo, and sheriff ’s deputies under
the leadership of Jim Clark. An order by Governor Wallace had
prohibited the march.
March 9: Unitarian minister James Reeb is beaten by four white
segregationists in Selma and dies two days later.
March 15: President Johnson addresses the nation and Congress
He describes the Voting Rights Bill he will submit to Congress in
two days and uses the slogan of the civil rights movement, “We
Shall Overcome.”
March 16: Sheriff ’s deputies and police on horseback in Montgomery beat black and white demonstrators.
March 21-25: Over 3,000 protest marchers leave Selma for
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 building they hear an address by Dr. King.
March 25: Mrs. Viola Liuzzo, wife of a Detroit Teamsters Union
business agent, is shot and killed while driving a car-load of
marchers back to Selma.
July: Dr. King visits Chicago. SCLC joins with the Coordinating
Council of Community Organizations (CCCO), led by Al Raby, in
the Chicago Project.
August-December: In Alabama, SCLC spearheads voter registration campaigns in Greene, Wilcox, and Eutaw counties, and in
the cities of Montgomery and Birmingham.
August 6: President Johnson signs the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
June: Dr. King’s book Why We Can’t Wait is published by Harper
& Row.
August 11-16: In Watts, the black ghetto of Los Angeles, riots
leave 35 dead, of whom 28 are black.
July 2: Dr. King attends the signing of the Public Accommodations
Bill, part of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, by President Lyndon B.
Johnson in the White House.
February: Dr. King rents an apartment in the black ghetto of Chicago.
July 18-23: Riots occur in Harlem. One black man is killed.
August 4: The bodies of civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner are discovered by FBI
agents buried near the town of Philadelphia, Mississippi. Neshoba
County Sheriff Rainey and his deputy, Cecil Price, are allegedly
implicated in the murders.
n 1966
February 23: Dr. King meets with Elijah Muhammad, leader of the
Black Muslims in Chicago.
March 25: The Supreme Court of the United States rules any poll
tax unconstitutional.
March: Dr King takes over a Chicago slum building and is sued
by its owner.
August: Riots occur in New Jersey, Illinois, and Pennsylvania.
September 18. Dr. King has an audience with Pope Paul VI at the
Vatican.
Spring: Dr. King makes a tour of Alabama to help elect black candidates.
September. Dr. King and Reverend Ralph Abernathy visit West
Berlin at the invitation of Mayor Willy Brandt.
Spring: The Alabama primary is held, the 昀椀rst time since Reconstruction that blacks have voted in any numbers.
December 10: Dr. King receives the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo,
Norway.
May 16: An antiwar statement by Dr. King is read at a large Washington rally to protest the war in Vietnam. Dr. King agrees to serve
as co-chairman of Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam.
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