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.
Extremely gifted orator, his I Have a Dream speech and subsequent March on Washington led over 200,000 protesters to march through the city. King played an integral role in the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1965. He was assassinated by James Earl Ray in 1968.