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Tribute To Dr. King
1965
On “Bloody Sunday,” March 7, 1965, some 600 Civil Rights marchers headed east out of Selma on U.S. Route 80. They got only as far as the Edmund Pettus Bridge six blocks away, where state and local lawmen attacked them with billy clubs and tear gas and drove them back into Selma.
On March 9, 1965, Dr. King leads symbolic march to Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.
On March 25th, Mrs. Viola Liuzzo, a wife and mother, was shot and killed while driving a marcher from Montgomery to Selma.
After President Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act into law, Martin Luther King, Jr. turns to socioeco- nomic problems.
1968
Dr. King made his first appearance in Memphis during the strike on March 18 at Mason Temple. He met with AFSCME International president Jerry Wurf (right). AFSCME field representative Jesse Epps has his hand on Wurf’s shoulder. Behind King is AFSCME national director of field services, P.J. Ciampa (rising from his seat).
The Rev. Ralph Abernathy, right, and Bishop Julian Smith, left, flank Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., during a march on be- half of striking sanitation workers in Memphis, Tenn., March 28. Rev. P.L. Rowe is at far left. The dignity of the march soon gave way to disorder. Witnesses said a group of about 200 youths began breaking windows and looting along Beale Street about 20 minutes after the march began. Police moved in with tear gas and nightsticks.
1967
The Supreme Court up- holds a conviction of MLK by a Birmingham court for demonstrating without a permit. King spends four days in Birmingham jail.
On November 27, King announces the inception of the Poor People’s Cam- paign focusing on jobs and freedom for the poor of all races.
1968
Black leaders accused the police of brutality while police officers said they did what was necessary to restore order. In the wake of the violence, a curfew was imposed and more than 3,800 National Guardsmen were rushed to the city.
1966
On January 22, Dr. King moves into a Chicago slum tenement to attract atten- tion to the living conditions of the poor.
In June, Dr. King and others begin the March Against Fear through the South.
On July 10, King initi- ates a campaign to end dis- crimination in housing, employment, and schools in Chicago.
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