gate lunch counters, movies, hotels, libraries, and other segregated facilities, it spreads rapidly throughout the country.On May 6, the 1960 Civil Rights Act is signed. The new legislation authorizes judges to appoint referees to help blacks register and vote.King meets with Senator John F. Kennedy, candidate for president of the United States, on June 24 to discuss racial concerns.In October, King is arrested in a sit-in at a major Atlanta department store. The charges are subsequently dropped, and all of the jailed demonstrators except King released. King is held on charge of a violating probation in a previous traffic arrest case. He is sentenced to four months of hard labor and transferred to DeKalb County Jail in Decatur, Georgia, and from there to Reidsville State Prison. Only after Senator Kennedy intervenes is he released on two thousand dollar bail.In a 7 to 2 decision in December, the U.S. Supreme holds that discrimination in bus terminal restaurants operated for the service of interstate passengers is a violation of the Interstate Commerce Act.1961On January 10, Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes become the first black students to enroll at the University of Georgia in Athens. The event is peaceful.The King's third child , Dexter Scott, is born on January 30.In March, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), along with SNCC and SCLC, announces a new campaign - the Freedom Rides. The first Freedom Riders depart from Washington, D.C., on May 4. One bus is burned and stoned in Anniston, Alabaman on May 14. The same day, riders are attacked in Birmingham. When they arrive in Montgomery on May 20, the ensuing violence leads to martial law. In Jackson Mississippi, the riders are arrested and spend forty to sixty days in Parchman Penitentiary.In November, in large measure as a result of the Freedom Rides, the Interstate Commerce Commission bans segregation on buses, trains and supportive facilities.On December 15, King arrives in ...
