King attends meeting at Holt Street Baptist Church
At Holt Street Baptist Church King participates in a meeting to kick off a fund raising drive for the repair of churches damaged by the January bombings.
At Holt Street Baptist Church King participates in a meeting to kick off a fund raising drive for the repair of churches damaged by the January bombings.
King testifies at the Montgomery church bombing trial.
At the end of the first day of the Montgomery church bombing trial, King urges a crowd at Hall Street Baptist Church to “keep faith” regardless of the court’s decision. King also participates in a ceremony celebrating the forty-eighth anniversary of Holt Street Baptist Church.
In the early morning four black churches and the parsonages of MIA leaders Robert Graetz and Ralph Abernathy are bombed in Montgomery. The Montgomery City Commission halts all bus service in the wake of the morning’s violence. King and Abernathy, in Atlanta for the Southern Negro Leaders Conference on Transportation and Nonviolent Integration at Ebenezer Baptist Church, are forced to return home and miss the opening session. In the afternoon King meets with FBI agents in Montgomery and requests that they investigate the bombings.
White House aide Siciliano replies to King’s 13 October telegram to the president.1
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
President
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
208 Auburn Avenue, N.E.
Atlanta, Georgia
Dear Dr. King:
The President has asked me to thank you for your telegram of October 13 in which you commend his actions following the recent bombing in Atlanta
Returning to Montgomery after a Sunday evening address in Nashville, King delivered an emotional prayer at the MIA’s regular Monday night mass meeting.