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The WPC is a local civil organization of black professionals formed to fight racism in Alabama. -
The WPC meets with the mayor of Montgomery mayor W.A Gayle to outline the changes they wanted to see in the Montgomery bus system. -
Claudette Colvin is arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman. -
Mary Louise Smith is arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman. -
Rosa Parks is arrested in Montgomery for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man. -
Former leader of NAACP, E.D. Nixon, calls black leaders, including Ralph Abernathy and Martin Luther Kind Jr., to organize a planning meeting. -
The WPC calls for a one-day bus boycott where an estimated 90% of Montgomery's black citizens stay off the buses. Black leaders meet to discuss extending the boycott, the MIA is formed. -
MIA issues a formal list of demands including courteous treatment by bus drivers, first-come first-served seating for all, and black bus operators on predominately black routes. The city refuses to comply. -
The MIA implements a carpool system to support citizens that are participating in the boycott after the city and white citizens try to defeat the boycott. -
Martin Luther King Jr.'s house is bombed while he is speaking at a Montgomery meeting. He calls for peaceful action, not violence. -
E.D Nixon's house is bombed just two days after Dr. King's house. -
City officials indicted over 80 boycott leaders under Alabama's anti-conspiracy laws. -
Dr. King is convicted and charged as a leader of the boycott and ordered to pay $500 or serve 386 days in jail. -
The federal district court ruled in Browder v. Gayle that bus segregation is unconstitutional. -
The Supreme Court upholds the district court ruling, striking down laws requiring racial segregation on buses. The MIA resolves to end the boycott only when the order to desegregate is officially implemented. -
The federal decision goes into effect, and Dr. King calls for the end of the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the community agrees.