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Izola Curry under arrest.
On the 20th of September, a woman by the name of Izola Curry approached US civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Blumstein’s Department Store in Harlem, New York. After confirming the man she was speaking to was King, she stabbed him in the chest with an ivory handled letter opener. It was also discovered Curry had a gun hidden in her bra.
The crime was considered especially unusual as Curry was African American.
Being treated with the blade still in his chest.
The blade was so close to King&#;s aorta that it was feared he&#;d die if he moved suddenly. The weapon was removed via surgery.
With his wife Coretta in hospital on the 30th of September.
Curry was committed to a mental institution, and continued to live in various facilities until her death at the age of ninety-eight in
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Inside the friendship between MLK Jr. and the surgeon who saved him
Middle-aged and neatly dressed, Izola Curry did not have the cut of an assassin.
But that’s what made it all the more shocking when, on Sept. 20, , the mentally ill woman produced from her handbag a 7-inch steel letter opener — and plunged it into Martin Luther King Jr.’s chest at a Manhattan signing for his book “Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story.”
And so, 60 years ago today, the beating heart of the civil rights movement nearly ceased — until King was saved by two Harlem doctors.
If King had died that day, there would be no “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” and no “I Have a Dream” building momentum for the Civil Rights Act of The attention to housing rights that marked King’s later career — and spurred the Civil Rights Act of — might never have come into sharp focus.
“Without Martin Luther King Jr., there would be no civil rights movement. My father allowed him those 10 extra years to continue the movement,” Ron Naclerio, whose thoracic surgeon dad, Dr. Emil Naclerio, helped save King, told The Post.
With Curry’s dagger still buried in his chest, King was rushed to Harlem Hospital, where Dr.
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Fils et petit fils de pasteurs, ses parents lui inculquent très jeune le principe qui doit guider la vie d’un King : "traiter chaque être humain avec respect".
Jeune enfant, le meilleur ami de Martin était un blanc, et dès leur premier jour d’école, ils furent séparé par la ségrégation en vigueur en application du principe « égaux mais séparés ». En à l’âge de 15 ans, il entre à l’université, au Morehouse College d’Atlanta. Il choisit la sociologie comme dominante et à l’obtention de son diplôme en il entre au Séminaire Théologique de Crozer, pour suivre des études de théologie. Il devient en pasteur de l’église baptiste Dexter Avenue à Montgomery en Alabama, obtient son doctorat de théologie en
King est à cette période déjà membre du comité exécutif de la National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (association nationale pour la promotion des Hommes de couleur), fondée en par Web Dubois, la NAACP se définissait comme un mouvement intégrationniste luttant contre les lynchages, l’exclusion en se fondant sur la médiatisation, les groupes de pression et les plaintes devant les tribunaux,
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What would the American Civil Rights Movement have been without the leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.? On September 20, , we almost lost him.
The weather boded well for a good turnout. It was a sunny Saturday in New York City and Blumstein&#;s Department Store &#; at W. th Street, between 7th and 8th Avenues, Harlem &#; was hustling to get ready for their big guest. On the ground floor, behind the shoe department, clerks had roped off an area where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would sit behind a desk to autograph copies of his first book, Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story.
The book related the success of the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott that lead to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the unconstitutionality of segregated transit systems.
Two black ministers who were active in the long boycott of segregated buses in Montgomery, Alabama were among the first to ride after a Supreme Court integration order went into effect on December 21, At right, is the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, while at left is the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Black Americans no longer had to sit at the back of the bus or give up their seats to white people.
Dr.
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