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1961
1956 continued
Decem ber
Federal injunctions prohibiting segregation on buses are served
on city and bus company officiate and state officiate. On the 21st,
Montgomery buses were integrated.
May
First group of Freedom Riders, organized by CORE, leaves
Washington, D .C ., shortly after the Supreme Court has outlawed
segregation in interstate transportation terminate. The bus is burned
outside Anniston, Alabama, the Freedom Riders are beaten in
Birmingham and arrested in Jackson, Mississippi. They spend 40
to 60 days in Parchman Penitentiary.
1957
February
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) is founded.
Dr. King is elected its first president. King appears on the cover of
lim e magazine.
Decem ber
Dr King arrives in Albany, Georgia, in response to a call from
ttie leader of the Albany Movement to desegregate public facilities
King is arrested at a demonstration.
May
King delivers "Give Us the Ballot speech at the Lincoln Memorial
in W ashington, D C. on the third anniversary of the Brown de
ctston
Dr. M a rtin Luther King. J R ., atudlaa Oandhl'a philosophy of non
violence, w h ich w ill becom e the guiding light In his quest for free
dom .
Septem ber
President Eisenhower federalizes the Arkansas National Guard to
escort nine Negro students to an all white high school in Little
Rock. The first civil rights act since Reconstruction is passed, Croat
ing the Civil Rights Commission and the Civil Rights Division of the
Justice Department.
1960
January
King family moves to Atlanta. King becomes co pastor of Ebe
nezer Baptist Church.
1958
June u
Dr. King, Roy Wilkins, A. Philip Randolph and Lester Granger
meet with President Eisenhower.
February
First lunch-counter sit-in is held by students in Greensboro,
North Carolina.
Septem ber
King is arrested in the vicinity of the M ontgom ery Recorder's
Court and released on $100 bond. King is convicted and fine is paid
by Montgomery Police Commissioner over King's objection. King's
book Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story is published
April
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Com m ittee (SN C C ) is
founded at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina. Dr. King
and James Lawson are the keynote speakers
1959
June
Dr. King and A. Philip Randolph announce plans to picket the
Republican and Democratic national conventions
M ay
King is invited to join the Birmingham protests.
October
July
King is arrested at an Albany city hall prayer vigil.
February
Dr. and Mrs. King begin a month-long visit to India to study
Gandhi's techniques of non violence.
King is arrested with other demonstrators at an Atlanta sit in on
the charge of violating Georgia's trespass law. All of the arrested
demonstrators are released except Dr. King. He is released later
from Reidsville State Prison on a $2,UU0 bond.
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February
King is tried and convicted for leading a march in Albany.
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