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.
Dr. King served as a leader of the Civil Rights Movement for 13 years until he was assassinated on April 4, 1968. In 1955, King became the spokesman for the Montgomery Bus Boycott. After over 300 days of continuous peaceful protests, the boycott resulted in the Supreme Court ruling that segregation in public transport was unconstitutional.