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Map of Washington highlighting Spokane County (location of the bomb attempt). The Spokane bombing attempt occurred on January 17, 2011, when a radio-controlled shaped-charge pipe bomb was found and defused in Spokane, Washington, along the route of that year's Martin Luther King Jr. memorial march.
Bomb threats were used to incite fear and violence during the American Civil Rights Movement, during which leader of the movement Martin Luther King Jr. received multiple bomb threats during public addresses, [3] [4] [5] and schools forced to integrate faced strong opposition, resulting in 43 bomb threats against Central High School in Arkansas being broadcast on TV and the radio.
A copy of a page of the "suicide letter" sent to Martin Luther King Jr., as published in The New York Times in 2014. [a]The FBI–King suicide letter or blackmail package was an anonymous 1964 letter and package by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) which was allegedly meant to blackmail Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. into committing suicide.
Allen's warning was disregarded by state Public Safety Director Al Lingo, who said he could "take care of" the Klan threat. [3] Martin Luther King Jr., left Birmingham for Atlanta. [4] Also during the day on May 11, Klan leaders from across the South were assembling in nearby Bessemer, Alabama for a rally.
Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, ... King's flight to Memphis had been delayed by a bomb threat against his plane. [249]
Seven more bomb threats, 5 targeting polling places, in metro Atlanta. Police in DeKalb County, Georgia are investigating seven bomb threats received on Election Day. DeKalb, part of metro Atlanta ...
is not the same as what Martin Luther King Jr. called ‘the tranquilizing drug of gradualism,’ which uses waiting as a code for enshrining the status quo. ... and even bomb threats to eke out ...
As early as the mid-1950s, Martin Luther King Jr. had received death threats because of his prominence in the civil rights movement. He had confronted the risk of death, including a nearly fatal stabbing in 1958, and made its recognition part of his philosophy. He taught that murder could not stop the struggle for equal rights.