4. Timeline
1954
1955
1957
1960
1962
Brown v. Board of Education
Emmett Till murdered while visiting
Mississippi.
Montgomery Bus Boycott begins.
Integration of schools in Little Rock,
Arkansas is blocked.
Sit-ins begin at Woolworth’s in
Greensboro, North Carolina.
James Meredith becomes first black
student to enroll in University of
Mississippi. Kennedy sends 5,000
federal troops to quell resulting violence.
5. 1963
April
Martin Luther King is arrested and
jailed during anti-segregation
protests. He writes his “Letter
from a Birmingham Jail.”
For years now I have heard the
word "Wait!" It rings in the ear of
every Negro with a piercing
familiarity. This "wait" has almost
always meant "never." We must
come to see with the distinguished
jurist of yesterday that justice too
long delayed is justice denied.
