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Tribute To Dr. King
1968
Dr. King made his
first appearance in
Memphis during the
strike on March 18 at
Mason Temple. He
met with AFSCME In-
ternational president
Jerry Wurf (right).
AFSCME field repre-
sentative Jesse Epps has his hand on Wurf’s shoulder. Be- hind 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.
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 Ed- mund 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 socioeconomic problems.
1966
On January 22, King moves into a Chicago slum tenement to attract attention to the living conditions of the poor.
In June, King and others begin the March Against Fear through the South.
On July 10, King initiates a campaign to end discrimi- nation in housing, employ- ment, and schools in Chicago.
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 an- nounces the inception of the Poor People’s Campaign fo- cusing on jobs and freedom for the poor of all races.
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