1956
8 verified events recorded in 1956.
Activity over time
Events per year
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1956-11-13 | Supreme Court Affirms Montgomery Bus Segregation Unconstitutional, Boycott Ends in Victory Martin Luther King Jr. · Rosa Parks · E.D. Nixon · Jo Ann Robinson · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1956-09-21 | Virginia Enacts Massive Resistance Laws Authorizing School Closures to Prevent Integration Harry F. Byrd · Thomas Bahnson Stanley · Virginia General Assembly · Byrd Organization | confirmed | |
| 1956-08-28 | FBI Director Hoover Launches COINTELPRO to Target Communist Party and Domestic Dissent J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Communist Party USA | confirmed | |
| 1956-06-29 | Federal-Aid Highway Act Creates Interstate System, Enables Destruction of Black Urban Neighborhoods Dwight D. Eisenhower · U.S. Congress · Bureau of Public Roads · General Motors · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1956-03-29 | Mississippi Creates State Sovereignty Commission for Civil Rights Surveillance and Segregationist Funding Mississippi Legislature · Ross Barnett · Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission · White Citizens' Councils | confirmed | |
| 1956-03-12 | Southern Manifesto Signed by 101 Congressmen Pledging Resistance to School Integration Walter F. George · Harry F. Byrd · Strom Thurmond · 19 U.S. Senators · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1956-02-06 | University of Alabama Expels Autherine Lucy After White Mob Violence, First Black Student Barred Autherine Lucy · University of Alabama · NAACP Legal Defense Fund · Thurgood Marshall · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1956-01-01 | White Citizens Councils Reach Peak Membership of 300,000 Through Business Elite Coordination White Citizens' Councils · Tom P. Brady · Ross Barnett · Allen C. Thompson · +1 | confirmed |