Civil Rights Timeline: Jan. 15, 1929 - Dec. 21, 1956 :: American Civil Rights

Civil Rights Timeline Jan. 15, 1929 - Dec. 21, 1956Jan. 15, 1929 - Dr. King is born - innate(p) on Jan. 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Ga., he was the second of three children of the Rev. Michael (later Martin) and Alberta Williams King. Sept. 1, 1954 - Dr. King becomes parson - In 1954, King accepted his first pastorate--theDexter Avenue Baptist church service in capital of Alabama, Ala. He and his wife, Coretta Scott King, whom he had met and married (June 1953) while at capital of Massachusetts University.Dec. 1, 1955 - Rosa lay defies city separatism - Often called the mother of the complaisant rights movement, Rosa Louise McCauley Parks, b. Tuskegee, Ala., Feb. 4, 1913, sparked the 381-day Montgomery bus boycott that led to a 1956 commanding Court order outlawing discriminatory practices on Montgomery buses. In celestial latitude 1955, returning home from her assistant tailor job in Montgomery, Parks refused a bus drivers order to surrender her seat to a livid man. She was j ailed and fined $14.Dec. 5, 1955 - Montgomery bus boycott- Although precipitated by the arrest of RosaParks, the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955-56 was actually a collective response to decades of intimidation, torture and discrimination of Alabamas African American population. By 1955, judicial decisions were still the head word means of struggle for civil rights, even though picketing, marches and boycotts sometimes punctuated the litigation. The boycott, which lasted for more than a year, was almost 100 percent effective. Dec. 21, 1956 - Bus segregation declared illegal - The boycotts succeeded indesegregating public facilities in the South and in like manner in obtaining civil rightslegislation from Congress. Civil Rights Timeline Sept. 24, 1957 - May 2, 1963Sept. 24, 1957 - School integration - In September 1957 the state received nationalattention when Gov. Orval E. Faubus (in state of affairs 1955-67) tried to prevent the integration of Little Rock Central superior Sch ool. President Dwight D. Eisenhower quickly intervened, in part by sending federal official troops to Little Rock, and several black students were enrolled at Central lavishly School. Aug. 19, 1958 - Student sit-ins - In spite of the events in Little Rock or Montgomery, orSupreme Court decisions, segregation still pervaded American guild by 1960. While protests and boycotts achieved moderate successes in desegregating aspects of education and transportation, other facilities much(prenominal) as restaurants, theaters, libraries, amusement parks and churches either barred or bound access to African Americans, or maintained separate, invariably inferior, facilities for black patrons.