Timeline
1865
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1896
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1910-1930
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1954
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"School Segregation Banned"- Headline of the Topeka Journal after ruling of the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case.
1955
March 2
Claudette Colvin fingerprint records.
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Photo credit: Stanford MLK Jr. Papers Project.
"NEGRO GIRL FOUND GUILTY OF SEGREGATION VIOLATION" - Headline from Alabama Journal about Colvin's arrest.
August
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"Racism in the USA: A young black is lynched in Mississippi." News of Emmett Till becomes international; headline from the Belgian newspaper, Le Drapeau Rouge.
October 21
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Justice: Claudette Colvin
Justice: Claudette Colvin
Mary Louise Smith arrested.
December 1
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"A Negro woman [Rosa Parks] was fined $10 and cost in police court here today for violation a state law requiring racial segregation on city buses."- From December 5 Montgomery Advertiser article reporting on Rosa Parks' arrest.
December 5
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"NEGRO GROUPS READY BOYCOTT OF CITY LINES" Montgomery Advertiser headline about the start of the bus boycott from December 4.
1956
January 30
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"BOMB ROCKS RESIDENCE OF BUS BOYCOTT LEADER – None Injured After Bombing Of King Home."- Montgomery Advertiser headline after King's home was bombed.
June
Bus segregation ruled unconstitutional, but case appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
November 13
"SUPREME COURT OUTLAWS BUS SEGREGATION" - Headline from the Montgomery Advertiser after Browder v. Gayle ruling.
December 21
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"Montgomery Negroes joyous at arrival here yesterday of a Supreme Court mandate ending segregation on city buses, voted last night to end their 12-month bus boycott this morning." - From Edward Philley's Montgomery Advertiser Report about why black leaders ended the boycott.
1964
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"Civil Rights Bill Passed...Negro Leaders Hail Passage; Some Southerners Voice Anger." From a New York Times headline describing reactions to the Civil Rights Bill.
1968
April 4
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"Martin Luther King is Slain in Memphis." New York Times headline from assassination.