The Amsterdam News, a notable Black newspaper, grabbed the woman who stabbed King and held her until a security officer took her.
Another woman reached to take the blade out of King’s chest, fearing he might die, but Howard and Romano stopped her in time, knowing that the blade was probably keeping him alive.
“In those days we didn’t have walkie-talkies,” Howard told Spring 3100, an internal Police Department magazine, in an interview years after. “The only radio we had was the one in the patrol car. We were entirely on our own, and believe me, it was some predicament.”
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Frederick Douglass autograph letter signed. Estimate: $15,000+
Boston RR Auction s first sale of the New Year is led by leaders: icons of the Civil Rights movement, political powerhouses, and social activists that brought about positive change with online bidding through January 13.
Highlights include remarkable letters by Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X.
Among them is a Frederick Douglass one-page handwritten letter to attorney and pioneering civil rights activist Albion Tourgee, who would later litigate the landmark Plessy v. Ferguson case. In part: My appointment is another step in the upward course of my race and I rejoice to be identified with it.