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g King toured India, stopping
5 to lay a wreath on the grave
c2 of Mahatma Gandhi, King's
13 predecessor in non-violence.
|' Dr. King resigned his
C/2 pasbui aic ui muui^umery in
I960, and moved hie family
~j& back to Atlantarln the same
o months, students at A&T
xj State University staged a
sit-in at a local Wool worth
jfj lunch counter in Greensboro,
triggering a wave of non-violent
protests.
Dr. King traveled through
most of 1960, appearing at
meetings, raffles, and work*
- shops ? fund-raising, and "
exhorting activists to "fill
the jails."
King himself was jailed on
several occasions, such as
the time that he and 36
followers walked into Rich's
Department Store in Atlanta
and requested service at the
store's restaurant. In that
case, the charges were
dropped when the mayor of
Atlanta interceded and ordered
a two-month truce for
negotiations.
King called the freedom
rides "a psychological turning
point in our whole
struggle," and the city
which best exemplified the
conflict was Albany, Georgia.
Racial conflict surfaced
there when a group of blackministers
asked the editor of
the Albany Herald to stop
printing defamatory material
?- about blacks. White racistsresponded
by stoning one of
the minister's homes. Albany
became the scene of
months of demonstrations
and "strife between police
and protesters. King called
Albany "a symbol for segregation's
last stand," in an
article written in a jail cell int
the town.
King was jailed again in
the Birmingham campaign,
which spawned 758 demonstrations
in 186 cities during
the following ten weeks.
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Continued
the television set all night
listening to the news about
it."
The next day a white
friend offered Griffin a ride
By 1963 the toll of arrests
for sit-ins had risen from
3,600 to 14,733.
The year 1963 was cli>
mazed by the March or
Washington, in which nearly
a quarter of a million people
congregated around the
monuments in the capital,
listening to speeches and
protest songs, with singers,
celebrities, and over 150
members ot Congress. It was
at this gathering that King
made his famous "I have t
?dream'' spooch,?ending
"Free at tot, fteet. at last.?- r
Thank God Almighty, I'm
iree at last.
In 1964, King was awarded
the Nobel Peace P^&e.
There were many more
milestones in his pursuit oi
freedom for his people: Sel?
ma, Chicago, Birmingham ?
and finally Memphis.
When King arrived in
Memphis in late March of
1968, he spoke to his followers
in a way considered by
many to be a premonition of
his fate:
"Like anybody, I would
like to live a long time," he
has its place. But I'm not
concerned about that now. I
just want to do God's will.
And He's allowed me to go
up to the mountain. And I've
looked over and I've seen the
promised land?'
"I may not get there with
you, but I want you to know
that we as a people will get
to the promised land.
- **So I'm happy tonight.
I'm not worried about anything.
I'm not fearing any
man. 'Mine eyes have seen
the glory of the coming of the
Lord.' "
The next day, April 4,
1968, as assasin's bullet
ended the life of Martin
Luther King, Jr.
nemember
in L. King
from Page 4
to the D.C. airport. 1
"We were riding along on I
the freeway, and as we got to
the top of a hill, we could see I
Washington burning..." I
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