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Tribute To Dr. King
1956
On January 26th, Dr. King is arrested and charged with driving 30 mph in a 25 mph zone. After being jailed for the first time in his life, he is released on his own recognizance.
On January 30th, a bomb is thrown onto the porch of the King home. Mrs. King, her daughter, Yolanda, and church member Ms. Lucy Williams are in the house. No one was injured.
On February 2nd, a lawsuit is filed in federal district court asking that Mont- gomery’s travel segregation laws be declared unconsti- tutional.
On February 21st, Dr. King, 24 other ministers and more than 100 others are indicted for being in- volved in the boycott. They were charged with being party to a conspiracy to hin- der the operation of busi- ness without “just or legal cause.”
1956
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, Coretta Scott King, emerge from the Montgomery, Ala., Courthouse in March 1956 after King’s trial on charges of conspiring to boycott segregated city buses.
On June 4th, a U. S. district court ruled that the racial desegregation on city bus lines is unconstitutional.
On November 13, the Supreme Court rules that bus seg- regation is illegal, ensuring victory for the boycott.
On December 20th, federal injunctions prohibiting seg- regation on buses are served on bus company officials. Injunctions are also served on city and Alabama state of- ficials.
On December 21st, the Montgomery, Alabama buses are integrated.
1957
On January 27th, an unexploded bomb is discovered on the Kings’ front porch.
Dr. Martin Luther King is welcomed to Gloria Dei Lutheran Church by Rev. Clifford Ansgar Nelson, Senior Pastor and Chairperson of the 1957 Minnesota State Pas- tor’s Conference.
1958
The U.S. Congress passed the first Civil Rights Act since reconstruction. King’s first book, Stride Toward Freedom, is published.
Dr. King met with President Dwight D. Eisenhower, along with Roy Wilkins, A. Philip Randolph, and Lester Grange on problems affecting black Americans.
Izola Ware Curry stabbed Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with a 7” letter opener at his book signing in Harlem, New York. Doctors stated after the surgery that the envelope opener lodged in his chest near his aorta in such a way that he may have died if he so much as coughed! Martin Luther King asked that the crazed woman not be jailed and instead be treated at a mental hospital.
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