1954 May 17 The Supreme Court rules against segregation in public schools in the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. 1955 August 28 Emmett Louis Till, a fourteen-year-old boy from Mississippi, is lynched for supposedly whistling at a white woman. The crime draws widespread media attention. December 1 Rosa Parks, an African American seamstress from Montgomery, Alabama, refuses to give up her seat to a white man at the front of a segregated bus. This act of bravery ignites the Montgomery Bus Boycotts. African Americans refuse to ride city buses for more than one year. After a Supreme Court ruling on December 21, 1956, Montgomery, Alabama, buses are desegregated. 1957 January–February The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) is established with the help of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who becomes the SCLC’s first president. The SCLC promotes nonviolence as a means for social change. September The Little Rock Nine, a group of black students in Little Rock, Arkansas, enroll in Central High School, an all-white school.
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