Hoover had persuaded Attorney General Robert Kennedy to authorize wiretaps on King on October 10, 1963, and on Januthe FBI placed the first unauthorized “bug” (listening device) in a hotel room where King was staying. On Decemit decided on a plan to “neutralize” him as a leader. Edgar Hovoer, however, conducted a years-long effort to destroy his career as a civil rights leader.
King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. And on Decemhe was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. On August 28, 1963, King gave his famous I have a Dream speech at the massive March on Washington. Kennedy to introduce a federal civil rights bill, which the following year was signed into law on Jas the historic 1964 Civil Rights Act. The Birmingham demonstrations force President John F. He led the massive demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963, and while in jail there wrote his famous Letter From Birmingham Jail on April 16, 1963. There were many highlights in Martin Luther King’s long career on behalf of civil rights. He would be arrested many other times as the most prominent civil rights leader in America in the late 1950s and 1960s.
The boycott began four days after Rosa Parks was arrested on Decemfor refusing to give up her seat to a white person.
(This estimate may not include arrests where he did not go to jail.) Civil fights leader John Lewis was arrested 40 times as a civil rights worker and then 5 more times after he was elected to Congress. Martin Luther King was arrested on this day for the first time in his civil rights career.Īccording to one estimate, King was arrested and jailed 29 times in his career. As part of the famous Montgomery Bus Boycott, which began on Decemas a campaign to desegregate the city’s bus system, Dr.
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