Martin Luther King, Jr. - Travels

In the evening King speaks at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham.

King leaves Chicago by train for Atlanta.

While in Chicago, King and Rev. Owen D. Pelt meet with officials of the United Packinghouse Workers Union to discuss lobbying the Chicago-based parent company of the Montgomery City Lines, the National City Lines.

King delivers the speech “A Realistic Look at Race Relations” at a meeting of the Birmingham NAACP.

King is in attendance as the Southern Negro Leaders Conference on Transportation and Nonviolent Integration open their second meeting at New Zion Baptist Church in New Orleans.

In Charleston, West Virginia, King preaches at First Baptist Church’s morning worship service. 

 At St. Augustine Presbyterian Church, King speaks on behalf of the Bronx Division of the Protestant Council of Churches of New York.

“Going Forward by Going Backward,” Dexter.

King attends an Emancipation Day program in Mobile, Alabama.

King attends an interseminary conference at Virginia Union University in Richmond, Virginia.