1 janv. 1956 - Southern Manifesto or Declaration of Principles

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Southern states issue the Southern Manifesto or Declaration of Principles to disavow the Brown decision, they want to delay the end of Jim Crow. The homes of Martin Luther King Jr. and Edgar Daniel Nixon, NAACP Montgomery chapter president, are bombed. White students riot at University of Alabama against the admission of first black student Autherin J. Lucy. Martin Luther King and 89 African American protesters are arrested for violating a law prohibiting boycotts. The Montgomery boycott becomes major news nationwide and King, a national figure. The Supreme Court rules against the Montgomery bus segregation laws. The boycott lasts 381 days. A new bus boycott in Tallahassee, Florida begins and lasts until 1958.

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