This practice is a collaboration between Sparrow and Volunteers of America Michigan to serve the areaâs homeless, the first such project between a health system and VOAMI in Michigan, and only the second in the nation.
Dr. King's Assassination. Background: On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated by a sniper's bullet while standing on the second-floor balcony of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. As news of King's death spread, violent riots broke out in African American neighborhoods in over one hundred cities across the United States.
Woman who stabbed Martin Luther King in 1958 dies aged 98 The woman who stabbed the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. more than a half-century ago in a failed assassination attempt has died. Izola Ware Curry, 98, died at Hillside Manor nursing home in Queens on March 7, The Smoking Gun reported.