court ruling end to intrastate segregation on public transportation. Dec. 21, 1956... Martin Luther King Jr. boards the first integrated bus in Montgomery. 1957... President Eisenhower calls in the National Guard to protect four black students at Central High in Little Rock as Arkansas' Governor Faubus prohibits integration. 1957... Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. becomes the leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC). Feb. 1, 1960... Students belonging to the Student Nonviolent Coordination Committee in Greensboro, NC conduct the first "sit-in" at lunch counters. "Sit-ins" spread throughout the South. 1961... "Freedom Riders" organize and drive to Southern states to test segregation in bus terminals. 600 federal
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