Past Events from May 17, 2022 – July 1, 2022 – Page 8 – The King Center

List
Month

May 2022

History – MLK delivers the “Give Us the Ballot” speech at the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom at the Lincoln Memorial

History – MLK III married Andrea R. Waters in Santa Barbara

History – Yolanda Renee King is born to MLK II and Andrea King in Atlanta

History – Yolanda DeniseKing is cremated in Atlanta

History – US Senate passes the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by 77to 19 votes

June 2022

History – MLK married CSK

History – MLK launched Summer Community Organization & Political Education Project

History – CSK announced the incorporation of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Center in Atlanta (later renamed The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change)

History – Alberta Wiliams King (mother of MLK) was shot and killed while playing the organ at Ebenezer Baptist Church

July 2022

History – MLK & CSK spend belated honeymoon in Mexico