-
-
The Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tenn., which runs workshops on organizing protests for individuals such as union organizers, issues invitations to civil rights workers.
-
Sudan became an independent nation
-
Whites are angry about the Montogermy bus boycottt bomb four african american churches
-
the University of Alabama accepts their first african american student
-
On Nov. 13, the Supreme Court upholds an Alabama district court ruling in favor of the Montgomery bus boycotters.
-
The Montgomery Bus Boycott ends in December, having successfully integrated Montgomery's buses.
-
He sended troops to several high schools in Little Rock and Arkansas
-
The Supreme Court decision Cooper v. Aaron rules that a threat of mob violence is not reason enough to delay school desegregation.
-
Fidel Castro became popular in 1959 by rising the power of cuba
-
Martin Luther King and his wife, Coretta Scott King, visit India, the homeland of Mahatma Gandhi, who won independence for India through nonviolent tactics. King discusses the philosophy of nonviolence with Gandhi's followers.
