Dr. King Chronology (3)

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Chronology (Section 3 of 5)
May 28: An all-white jury in Montgomery acquits Dr. King of the
tax evasion charge.
June 10: Dr. King and A. Philip Randolph announce plans for picketing both the Republican and Democratic national conventions.
June 24: Dr. King has a conference with John F. Kennedy candidate for president of the United States, about racial matters.
October 19: Dr. King is arrested at an Atlanta sit-in and is jailed on
a charge of violating the state’s trespass law. Oct. 22-27. The Atlanta charges are dropped. All jailed demonstrators are released
except for Dr. King, who is held on a charge of violating a probated
sentence in a traf昀椀c arrest case. He is transferred to the DeKalb
County Jail in Decatur, Georgia, and is then transferred to the
Reidsville State Prison. He is released from the Reidsville State
Prison on a two-thousand-dollar bond.
n 1961
January 30: A third child, Dexter Scott, is born to Dr. and Mrs.
King in Atlanta.
May 4: The 昀椀rst group of Freedom Riders, intent on integrating interstate buses leaves Washington, D.C., by Greyhound bus. The
group, organized by the Congress for Racial Equality (CORE),
leaves shortly after the Supreme Court has outlawed segregation
in interstate transportation terminals. The bus is burned outside of
Anniston, Alabama, on May 14. A mob beats the Riders upon their
arrival in Birmingham. The Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, and spend forty to sixty days in Parchman Penitentiary,
Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner (white)
December 15: Dr. King arrives in Albany, Georgia, in response to
a call from Dr. W. G. Anderson, the leader of the Albany Movement
to desegregate public facilities, which began in January 1961.
December 16: Dr. King is arrested at an Albany demonstration.
He is charged with obstructing the sidewalk and parading without
a permit.
n 1962
February 2: Dr. King is tried and convicted for leading the
December march in Albany.
May 2: Dr. King is invited to join the Birmingham protests.
July 27: Dr. King is arrested at an Albany city hall prayer vigil and
jailed on charges of failure to obey a police of昀椀cer, obstructing the
sidewalk, and disorderly conduct.
September 20: James Meredith makes his 昀椀rst attempt to enroll
at the University of Mississippi. He is actually enrolled by Supreme
Court order and is escorted onto the Oxford, Mississippi, campus
by U.S. Marshals on October 1, 1962.
October 16: Dr. King meets with President John F. Kennedy at
the White House for an one-hour conference.
n 1963
March 28: The Kings’ fourth child, Bernice Albertine, is born.
March-April. Sit-in demonstrations are held in Birmingham to protest segregation of eating facilities. Dr. King is arrested during a
demonstration.
April 16: Dr. King writes the “Letter from Birmingham Jail” while
imprisoned for demonstrating.
May 3-4: T. Eugene (“Bull”) Connor, director of public safety of Birmingham, orders the use of police dogs and 昀椀re hoses upon the
marching protestors (young adults and children.)
May 20: The Supreme Court of the United States rules Birmingham’s segregation ordinances unconstitutional.
June 11: Governor George C. Wallace tries to stop the court ordered integration of the University of Alabama by “standing in the
schoolhouse door” and personally refusing entrance to black students and Justice Department of昀椀cials. President John F. KenContinued >>
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