20/09/2026
🚨 ON THIS DAY IN BLACK HISTORY — SEPTEMBER 20, 1958 🚨
DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. WAS STABBED — BUT HE SURVIVED. ✊🏾
While signing copies of Stride Toward Freedom at Blumstein’s department store on 125th Street in Harlem, Dr. King was attacked and stabbed in the chest with a letter opener by Izola Curry.
The blade came dangerously close to his aorta. Doctors warned that even a sudden movement could have been fatal.
But Dr. King survived.
This happened six years before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and seven years before the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
At a time when the struggle for Black freedom was placing enormous danger on civil-rights leaders, King continued the work.
📖 KNOW OUR HISTORY.
✊🏾 HONOR OUR LEADERS.
🔥 UNDERSTAND THE SACRIFICES BEHIND THE MOVEMENT.
September 20, 1958 — a day Dr. King nearly lost his life, but survived to continue changing America.
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