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.
On March 29 1968 Martin Luther King went to Memphis in Mississippi, where racism was a big problem. He came to support the black sanitary public works employees. During his visit in Memphis he got assassinated on his motel April 4 1968, he got shot with a bullet that went straight through his cheek.