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MLK/The Charlotte Post
Thursday, January 16,1997
Life and times of MLK
Continued from 4C
One hundred fifteen
black leaders meet in
Montgomery and form
the Southern
Christian Leadership
Conference (SCLC).
23 June 1958
King meets with
President Eisenhower.
17 September 1958
King publsihes his
first book, “Stride
Toward Freedom: The
Montgomery Storjr”
20 September 1958
King is stabbed in
Harlem
3 February 1959
King departs for
India as guest of Prime
Minister Nehru.
18 April 1959
King addresses
approximately 25,000
high school and college
students participating
in the second Youth
March for Integrated
Schools in
Washington. D.C.
29 November 1959
King resigns from
Dexter to dvote more
time to leadership of
the SCLC in Atlanta.
24 January 1960
King co-pastors
Ebenezer Baptist
Church with his
father, Martin Luther
King Sr.
22 June 1960
King meets privately
with presidential can
didate John F.
Kennedy.
19 October 1960
Kng is arrested for
sitting-in at Rich’s
Department store in
Atlanta, refuses to
post bail, and goes to
jail with student pro
testors.
21 May 1961
King addresses
Freedom Riders and
black residents at
First Baptist Church
in Montgomery.
11-14 December
1961
King responds to an
appeal from William B.
Anderson, president of
the Albany Movement,
to join the protests in
Albany, Ga.
16 December 1961
King is arrested for
parading without a
permit and is relaesed
on bond.
16 October 1962
King meets with
President Kennedy
and urges him to issue
a second
Emancipation
Proclamatoin to end
racial segregation.
16 AprU 1963
King is jailed in
Birmingham and
writes “Letter from a
Birmingham Jail”
28 August 1963
King delivers the “I
Have a Dream” speech
at the March on
Washington for Jobs
and Freedom.
22 September 1963
King eulogizes three
girls killed in 16th
Street Baptist Church
bombing in
Birmingham,
Alabama.
September 1963
“Strength to Love” is
pubhshed
10 October 1963
Robert Kennedy
authorizes the FBI to
wiretap King’s tele
phone in Atlanta, and
subsequently approves
taps n SCLC’s phones.
March 1964
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