bone canaliculi branching tubular passages radiating like wheel spokes from each bone lacuna to connect with the canaliculi of adjacent lacunae, and with the haversian canal.
After the successful beginning of the boycott on Monday, the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) came into being that afternoon, and Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the presidency. As MIA leader, King became the focus of white hatred. On January 30, 1956, the King home was bombed. King had been speaking at a mass meeting at the First Baptist Church. When he heard the news, he told the crowd what happened, and left the church. Nearing his house, King saw blacks brandishing guns and knives, and a barricade of white policemen.
Martin Luther King Jr., with the Rev. Ralph Abernathy (center) and the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, defied an injunction against protesting on Good Friday in 1963. They were arrested and held in solitary confinement in the Birmingham jail where King wrote his famous Letter From Birmingham Jail. Courtesy of Birmingham Public Library Archives It's been five decades since Martin Luther King Jr., began writing his famous Letter From Birmingham Jail, a response to eight white Alabama clergymen who criticized King and worried the civil rights campaign would cause violence.