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.
1 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.âs less than thirteen years of nonviolent leadership ended abruptly and tragically on April 4th, 1968, when he was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. 2  For more information regarding the assassination trial of Dr. King.