Following her arrest, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. organized a boycott of the Montgomery bus system. On Nov. 13, 1956, the Supreme Court struck down Alabama state and Montgomery city bus segregation laws as being in violation of the equal protection…
Gaw, Jonathan. (1992, May 2). KING CASE AFTERMATH: A CITY IN CRISIS : Relative Calm Prevails in San Diego County : Tension: Police and firefighters respond quickly to firebombings and other incidents of violence. Students stage protests. Los Angeles…
Demonstrators march in front of the "Woolworth" store in Rock Hill, South Carolina. This demonstration occurred after the "Friendship Nine" were arrested for attempting to order food at McCrory's, the Five and Dime store.…