Timeline
- September 1, 1954 - Martin Luther King Jr. becomes the pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery.
- December 1, 1955 - Rosa Parks is arrested for violating the bus segregation law and is charged with disorderly conduct.
- December 2, 1955 - The stage for the Montgomery Bus Boycott is being set by Jo Ann Robinson, Fred Gray, and E.D Nixon.
- April 23, 1956 - The Montgomery Bus Association/Company decides to end the segregated bus laws. Supreme Court outlaws bus segregation in South Carolina.
- April 24, 1956 - Bus companies in a dozen more Southern cities decide to end bus segregation in response to the Supreme Court's decision.
- December 21, 1956 - Black citizens desegregate Montgomery buses after a 13-month boycott. The bus service resumes full service.
- December 21, 1956 - Someone fires into Martin Luther King Jr.'s home.
- December 25, 1956 - A 15- year old girl is attacked at a bus stop by five white men.
- December 31, 1956 - A sniper fires into another city bus.
- January 10,1957 - Four churches and two homes are bombed.