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12 December 1955
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This letter to the editor of the Montgomery Advertiser makes one of the first public mentions of the use of Gandhi-like tactics.

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December 1, 1955
Rosa Parks is arrested

December 2, 1955
Women’s Political Council calls for bus boycott in Montgomery

December 5, 1955
Montgomery Improvement Association takes shape to coordinate boycott

January 30, 1956
King’s house is bombed

November 15, 1956
U.S. Supreme Court rules that bus segregation laws are unconstitutional

December 21, 1956
Montgomery City Lines resumes full bus service

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Related Documents

December 1, 1955
Arrest report for Rosa Parks

December 2, 1955
Leaflet, “Don’t Ride the Bus,” Come to a Mass Meeting on 5 December

December 5, 1955
Minutes of Montgomery Improvement Association Founding Meeting, by U.J. Fields

December 5, 1955
MIA Mass Meeting at Holt Street Baptist Church

December 8, 1955
Montgomery Improvement Association Resolution

December 8, 1955
To the National City Lines, Inc.

December 25, 1955
“To the Montgomery Public”

January 26, 1956
Complaint of City of Montgomery Against Martin Luther King, Jr.

February 21, 1956
Indictment, State of Alabama v. M. L. King, Jr.

March 18, 1956
“When Peace Becomes Obnoxious,” Outline

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