Along with other civil rights leaders, he meets on June 23 with President Dwight D. Eisenhower to discuss problems affecting black Americans. Lunch counter sit-ins begin on February 1 in Greensboro, North Carolina. MLK is the keynote speaker at the event.
In Atlanta, on October 19, MLK is arrested during a sit-in while waiting to be served at a restaurant. He is sentenced to four months in jail, but after intervention by then presidential candidate John Kennedy and his brother Robert Kennedy, MLK is released.
On December 15, MLK arrives in Albany, Georgia, at the request of the leader of the Albany protest, to desegregate public facilities there. The following day, at a demonstration attended by seven hundred protesters, MLK is arrested for obstructing the sidewalk and parading without a permit.
He is arrested again on July 27 and jailed for holding a prayer vigil in Albany. He leaves jail on August 10 and agrees to halt demonstrations there.
On April 3, the Birmingham campaign is officially launched. More than one thousand demonstrators, mostly high school students, are jailed. Protest leaders suspend mass demonstrations as negotiations begin on May 8. Two days later, the Birmingham agreement is announced. During the next 34 hours, 50 Confederate guns and mortars launched more than 4, rounds Sign up now to learn about This Day in History straight from your inbox. In Cambodia, the U. Navy conducts its evacuation effort, Operation Eagle.
On April 3, , as the communist Khmer Rouge forces closed in for the final assault on the capital city, U. Truman in charge of a country still fighting the Second World War and in possession of a weapon of unprecedented and terrifying power. Galileo was ordered to turn himself in to the Holy Office to begin trial for holding the belief that the On April 12, , the British government moves to mollify outraged colonists by repealing most of the clauses of the hated Townshend Act.
Initially passed on June 29, , the Townshend Act constituted an attempt by the British government to consolidate fiscal and political King was sentenced to six months of hard labor, presidential candidate John F.
Kennedy reached out to the King family, helped secure Dr. The Equal Justice Initiative works to end mass incarceration, excessive punishment, and racial inequality. Until we confront our history of racial injustice and its legacy, we cannot overcome the racial bias that exists today. Facebook Twitter. On this day Oct 19, 52 Individuals, Including Dr. You might know about Martin Luther King, Jr.
Are you, however, aware that the civil rights leader went to jail 29 times often detained in various cities in the south? According to the King Center, he was arrested for acts of civil disobedience and on trumped-up charges, such as when he was jailed in Montgomery, Alabama, in for driving 30 miles per hour in a mile-per-hour zone.
Meet the first black professional basketball team whose dominance influenced NBA integration in Four days later, on January 30, his home was bombed.
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