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.
King helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957, and, as its first president, he led non-violent campaigns of civil disobedience. He became the face of the civil rights movement, and would earn Time Man of the Year for 1963 and the Nobel Peace Prize of 1964 for his work. King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis by James Earl Ray. The day before his death, King said in his final public speech, âI've seen the Promised Land.