mbed on January 30. Although Mrs. King and Yolanda are at home with a friend, no one is injured.In Early February, the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa is ordered by the Supreme Court to admit its first black student, Autherine Lucy. When white students demonstrate, Lucy is suspended from the University of Alabama for "reasons of safety". A federal district judge orders her reinstated. When she is expelled again, she makes no further effort to enroll, and the University remains segregated until 1963.On February 21, King is indicted, along with twenty-four other ministers and more than one hundred other blacks, for conspiring to prevent the Montgomery bus company from operation of business.A United States Discrit Court rules on June 4 that racial segregation on Alabama's city bus lines is unconstitutional. On November 13, the United States Supreme Court uninamously upholds the decision.On December 21, blacks and whites in Montgomery ride for the first time on previously segregated buses.1957More than sixty black ministers, committed to a southern civil rights movement, respond to King's call for a meeting. In Atlanta on January 9 and 10, they form the organization that will become the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SLCL).While King and Rev. Ralph Abernathy are in Atlanta for the meeting, Abernathy's home and church are bombed in Montgomery. Three other Baptist churches and the home of a white minister are also bombed in response to the victory of the bus boycott.On February 14, the SCLC meets formally for the first time in New Orleans. King is unanimously elected president.On May 17, three years to the day after the Brown v. Board of Education decision, King participates with other civil rights leaders in a Prayer Pilgrimage to Washington. He delivers his first major national address, calling for black voting rights. The next month, he meets with Vice-President Richard Nixon.On September 9, Congress passes the 1957 Civil Ri...
