Montgomery Bus Boycott

  • NAACP is formed

    W. E. B. Dubois and others form the civil rights organization, the NAACP.
  • Claudette Colvin refuses to give up her seat on a bus

  • Aurelia Browder is arrested for not giving up her seat on a bus

  • Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott begins

  • Martin Luther King Jr. is elected to president of the Montgomery Improvement Association

  • Injuctions are obtained, and Martin Luther King Jr. is indicted or the bus boycott

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott ends

  • Martin Luther King Jr.s home is bombed

  • Martin Luther King, Jr. is convicted and fined for his participation in the bus boycott

  • Browder v. Gayle ruling find that bus segregation is unconstitutional