He got out of his car and stroll across the street, where he rented a room at the Bessie Brewer's Rooming House. ... He could hear the screams across the street. ... Galt stayed at the Rebel Motel in Memphis for one night: April 3. Through driver's license records, police found that Galt was 36 years old, 5-feet 11-inches tall and he weighed 175 pounds. ... He was assassinated in Memphis by a sniper on April 4. ...
(Robinson 5). ... King's civil rights movements came to an abrupt halt when he was assassinated April 4, 1968, in the balcony of the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis. The president then declared April 7 a national day of mourning for King (Biography 1-7). ...
The Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR) was founded in Birmingham, Alabama, on 5 June 1956, after Attorney General John Patterson of Alabama outlawed the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in the state. ... A willingness to accept suffering for the cause, if necessary, but never to inflict it; (5.) ... With the backing of SCLC, in April and May of 1963, the ACMHR conducted a sustained campaign of marches and nonviolent action to protest segregation in Birmingham. ... Boutwell won the election on April 2nd, but he and other city officials refused ...
As Devon Carbado and Donald Wiese argued that "perhaps no other figure contributed so much to the civil rights movement yet been so penalized by it" 5. ... During the Poor People's Campaign in 1968, which begun after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr on April 4, Rustin opposed the campaign due to his concerns about civil disobedience in which he argued that the plans were vague and had lacked any direction as well as it did not address the key issues of the day, specifically the income for African-Americans, but Rustin's main argument is that he had concerns about...
