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.
It ended when Dr. King was assassinated in 1968 -- Dr. King certainly was not the only leader or actor in the Civil Rights Movement. In the '50s and '60s, it was a collection of millions of people around the US and the world who contributed. But, Dr. King was an icon of the movement to many.