September 20, 1958 | Rev. Martin Luther King. Jr. Stabbed
Almost five years before the “March on Washington” and perhaps the greatest speech ever delivered in America “I Have A Dream”, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was stabbed by a mentally unstable woman on September 20, 1958 at a book signing in a Harlem bookstore. If 42 year old Izola Curry had been successful, the entire events of civil rights in America may have been effected by her moment of frenzied derangement. Rev. King was taken to a Harlem Hospital after the attack and recovered after a successful operation.
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Rev. Martin Luther, King, Jr. 1964

Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King
Below “Before Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous “I Have A Dream Speech” at the 1963 March on Washington, in 1962 a similar “I Have A Dream” speech was given in Rocky Mount, NC. The speech was publicly released during the summer of 2015.