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.
April 4th, 1968 Martin Luther King was shot and killed. On that night, Robert F Kennedy, New York's senator back then, wanted to deliver the news to the people of Indianapolis, IN.Local police warned him, they won't be able to provide protection if the people wold riot because he was in the heart of the African-American ghetto.n that night, Robert F Kennedy, New York's senator back then, wanted to deliver the news to the people of Indianapolis, IN. Local police warned him, they won't be able to provide protection if the people wold riot because he was in the heart of the African-American ghetto.