On this day in ...... 1956 (55 years ago today) an Alabama court convicted Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. of organizing African Americans in Montgomery to engage in a boycott of buses. The 27-year-old civil rights leader received a $500 fine -- converted into a 386-day jail sentence that was suspended pending appeal. The 17-week-old boycott would last till December of the same year. (image credit) It ended following the issuance in November of Browder v. Gayle, 352 U.S. 903, a Supreme Court judgment that outlawed segregation in public transportation.
