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This became known as “Turnaround Tuesday.”
Alabama Governor George Wallace continued to try to prevent another march until President Lyndon B. Johnson pledged his support and ordered U.S. Army troops and the Alabama National Guard to protect the protestors. I may not get there with you. The news of his imprisonment entered the 1960 presidential campaign when candidate John F.
Kennedy made a phone call to Martin’s wife, Coretta Scott King. Thousands of mourners walked from Ebenezer Baptist Church to Morehouse College.
In September 1958, King survived an attempt on his life when a woman with mental illness stabbed him in the chest as he signed copies of his book Stride Toward Freedom in a New York City department store.
He was becoming discouraged at the slow progress of civil rights in America and the increasing criticism from other African American leaders.
In the spring of 1968, a labor strike by Memphis, Tennessee, sanitation workers drew King to one last crusade. This time, King made sure he was part of it. If you see something that doesn’t look right, contact us!
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After their wedding, the newlyweds moved into an upstairs bedroom in the Williams’ home on Auburn Avenue, where their children were born.
Their first child, daughter Willie Christine King, was born on September 11, 1927.
After the legal defeats and large financial losses, the city of Montgomery lifted the law that mandated segregated public transportation.
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The movement quickly gained traction in several other cities. In the attack, he also killed one of the church's deacons, Edward Boykin, and Mrs. Jimmie Mitchell, a retired school teacher, suffered a wound to the neck. On March 25, the number of marchers, which had grown to an estimated 25,000 gathered in front of the state capitol where King delivered a televised speech.
We have sometimes given our white brothers the feeling that we liked the way we were being treated. I’m taking over this morning.”
With that he drew two pistols and for the next 90 seconds fired wildly and continuously, hitting Mrs King, another elderly woman parishioner, and a 69-year-old church deacon, Mr Edward Boykin.
Mrs King was taken to the nearby Grady Memorial Hospital, where officials said she was “barely alive” on arrival.
Martin Luther King Sr. and Alberta Williams King, seen here in 1968, were parents to Martin Luther King Jr.
A middle child, Martin Jr. had an older sister, Willie, and a younger brother, Alfred. In addition to the choir, King was the organizer and president of the Ebenezer Women's Committee from 1950 to 1962.
Outside of her work at Ebenezer, King was the organist for the Women's Auxiliary of the National Baptist Convention from 1950 to 1962.
On August 3, 1995, he suffered a stroke, and was taken to a hospital, where he died of complications from his stroke on August 19, at age 44.
Mrs. After graduating, she announced her engagement to King at the Ebenezer Baptist Church. Their oldest, Yolanda, was born in 1955, followed by sons Martin Luther King III in 1957 and Dexter in 1961. This included the Montgomery Bus Boycott that integrated Alabama’s public transit, the Greensboro Sit-In movement that desegregated lunch counters across the South, the March on Washington that led to the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and the Selma-to-Montgomery marches in Alabama that culminated in the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
King’s efforts earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 when he was 35.
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
King’s first leadership role within the Civil Rights Movement was during the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955–1956.