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Rosa Parks became the secretary for the local NAACP and founded the Montgomery NAACP Youth Council. -
35-year-old Montgomery resident Viola White is arrested and beaten by police for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus. -
Two women of the Women's Army Corps in uniform were assaulted verbally and physically for refusing to give up their seats on a Montgomery bus. -
The WPC was founded in Montgomery to develop strategies to combat community challenges in the face of Jim Crow laws. -
Motgomery resident Hillard Brooks was beaten and murdered by a police officer for refusing the racist bus policies. -
The WPC collected a formal list of complaints, instances of abuse on buses against black people and delivered the list to the mayor of Montgomery. -
WPC president Jo Ann Robinson wrote a letter to the mayor of Montgomery, warning him that if the violence against black people on buses did not stop, black passengers would boycott. -
15-year-old Claudette Colvin was arrested in Montgomery for refusing to give up her seat. -
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to clear out a section of the bus of African Americans for a white passenger and is arrested. -
WPC members distributed thousands of leaflets to inform as many local black people as they could about the bus boycott. -
Four thousand people gathered at the Holt Street Baptist Church to hear the newly appointed leader of the movement, Dr. MLK, deliver a call to action for non-violent protest and boycott. -
The bus boycott officially begins, and Rosa Parks is initially found guilty. -
A stick of dynamite was thrown onto the front porch of Dr. MLK in an attempt at intimidation over the economic impact of the bus boycott. -
The civil rights activist and boycott organizer E.D. Nixon's house was bombed in an attempt at intimidation over the financial impact of the bus boycott. -
Dr. MLK and 89 other activists were arrested for organizing the bus boycott.
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A federal court in Montgomery ruled that bus segregation is unconstitutional and in violation of the 14th Amendment. The city would appeal to the Supreme Court. -
The Supreme Court upheld the federal court decision that bus segregation is unconstitutional and violates the 14th Amendment. -
The buses of Montgomery, Alabama, were integrated, and the bus boycott ended. -
MLK and other civil rights leaders founded the historic SCLC off the momentum of the successful bus boycott.