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.
Izola Curry was an African-American woman who attempted to assassinate the civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. She stabbed King with a letter opener at a Harlem book signing on September 20, 1958, during the Harlem civil rights movement of the late 1950s and early 1960s. King survived Curry's attempt, and forgave her, but was killed less than ten years later in an unrelated incident.