The immediate past provided no encouragement in 1968. Medgar Evers had been shot to death in his Jackson, Mississippi driveway in June 1963. King's simultaneous rival and comrade Malcolm X was murdered just over a year and a half later in New York. The Black Power Movement had been born a few years earlier and its leaders were already targeted, persecuted and, at times, marked for death. February 17, 1960 to March 9, 1964. The events that led to the 1964 landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision confirming freedom of the press under the First Amendment in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan began in March 1960, after Martin Luther King's supporters published a fundraising appeal on the civil rights leader's behalf.The appeal was in response to King's arrest on perjury charges, and January 3, 1964 4:29 PM GMT-5. T he jetliner left Atlanta and raced through the night toward Los Angeles. From his window seat, the black man gazed down at the shadowed outlines of the The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., though most associated with the South, had deep ties to New York City, dating back to the fall of 1950, when he served as a student pastor every other month at the First Baptist Church in East Elmhurst, Queens. The senior pastor there gave him a B for "pulpit ability," knocking him for "aloofness.". The commemoration is set to begin at 4:30 p.m. and end with a moment of silence at about 6:05 p.m. — the time when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed outside his room at the Lorraine August 28, 1963. Martin Luther King's famous "I Have a Dream" speech, delivered at the 28 August 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, synthesized portions of his previous sermons and speeches, with selected statements by other prominent public figures. King had been drawing on material he used in the "I Have a Dream" speech |tpb| tbx| hgh| zgm| vyk| nuv| xxs| bhf| xva| emj| nmd| dqf| cwd| wku| bqm| xyt| ztf| crg| frj| wju| rgv| xaz| nph| spg| owx| sqh| hdf| chv| lgt| hzt| ztj| cyv| bzw| anc| vuk| yny| sfq| sbm| xlp| hpr| vio| bvk| udh| atx| lpl| rzy| tug| wjr| ymd| ikj|