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1955-1956: The Dexter Ave. Baptist Church, lead by new minister Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., founds the Montgomery Improvement Association to organize the famous bus boycotts.
December 1, 1955: Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to white passengers, and is arrested and jailed. This began a Montgomery bus boycott led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. that would continue for a year until the Supreme Court ordered public transportation to be integrated.
1957: Tuskegee, Alabama redraws its city limits so that predominantly black areas are kept out of the city elections, disenfranchising black voters. Butler Chapel AME Zion Church organizes widespread boycotts of unsympathetic businesses, and moves all of their spending to businesses that support their cause. The city limits are finally redrawn to their original places in 1961.
September 4, 1957: Three years after Brown v. Board of Education, Little Rock High School still wasn't integrated, and were ordered to do so. The principal of the school agreed, but then wouldn't let the 9 black students to be integrated into the school's front doors. He dismissed their police escorts, and violent crowds descended on the students. They had to be evacuated from the school. Finally, paratroopers and Federal National Guard troops were sent in to protect the students for the remainder of the year.
February 1, 1960: Four black students sit-in at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. Within a few days there were hundreds of fellow protestors, starting a wave of lunch counter sit-ins across the country.
March 1963: Project C (for confrontation) begins after much planning at the Dorchester Academy in Georgia, the same place where thousands were trained in nonviolent action through the Southern Christian Leadership Conferences.
August 28, 1963: The historic "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom" takes place, lead by A. Phillip Randolph and Bayard Rustin. 200,000 people join the march and end up at the Lincoln Memorial to hear Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famous "I have a dream" speech.
1963-1964: Rallies across St. Augustine, Florida draw national attention from figures such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Jackie Robinson. The violent backlash against protesters is seen by the whole country, and more people take up the cause because of it.
March 7, 1965: At the Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma, Alabama, 600 protesters gather for a march to the state capital in Montgomery to demand black voting rights. They are met by state troopers telling them to stop, but refuse and continue to march for about 6 blocks. The troopers respond by tear gassing and severely beating the protesters, resulting in this day being remembered as "Bloody Sunday." Martin Luther King came to Selma to support the protesters gathering again, but they still had to sit-in at the site for days before the police would let them pass. They finally were allowed to go through with their 5-day march to Montgomery on March 21, 1965.
February 8, 1968: The "Orangeburg Massacre" occurs when a race riot breaks out at an Orangeburg, South Carolina bowling alley. The riot spreads to the college campus, where police shoot into the crowds, killing 3 people and injuring 27. The police officers were later acquitted of any charges.
