1. By: Jacob Baughan

2. The Boycott began on December 1, 1955 and lasted 382 days.

3. December 1 - Rosa Parks, an African American is arrested for violating the bus segregation laws and is charged with disorderly conduct.

4. December 5 - Rosa Parks is convicted and fined by the city court. A one-day boycott of the city buses has 90 percent of regular black riders staying off the buses. Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. is elected the president of the newly formed Montgomery Improvement Association. First MIA meeting is held at the Holt Street Baptist Church, where the several thousand black citizens who attend support the continuing of the bus boycott.

5. March 19-22 - King is found guilty of violating the boycott conspiracy law and is sentenced to a $500 fine.