APLAC Timeline By ijustneedtomakeone Period: 1940 to 2010 APLAC Timeline 1948 Executive Order 9981 enacts military equality 1955 Emmett Till unjustly murdered 1955 MLK involved in the Montgomery bus boycott 1957 MLK president of the SCLC Southern Christian Leadership Conference 1960 Civil Rights Act signed 1962 Elwood receives record of MLK at Zion Hill 1963 MLK arrested in Birmingham Writes Letter From Birmingham Jail 1963 Elwood taken to Nickel 1964 Public segregation made illegal 1964 Elwood’s murder 1965 Ernie Chambers and Youngdahl talk 1965 Youngdahl resigns as minister 1965 Youngdahl suggests his new idea Idea of connecting his church congregation to the African American Lutherans in Omaha 1968 MLK assassination