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.
Martin Luther King Jr. is an iconic figure not only in the United States of America but around the world as well. He was assassinated on 4th April, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. King will be revered forever as someone who sought equal rights for all irrespective of race and color.