The Montgomery Bus Boycott: Martin Luther King's first public address, 1955 Sit-ins and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), 1960 Freedom rides I: the Nashville initiative, 1961 Freedom rides II: MLK, the Kennedys, and national politics, 1961 Bob Moses, SNCC, and Mississippi, 1960-63 A national firestorm from Birmingham, 1963 The March on Washington, 1963 Birmingham church bombing, 1963 Freedom summer, 1964 Party realignment: the Cow Palace and Atlantic City, 1964 King, J. Edgar Hoover, and the Nobel Peace Prize, 1964 Crossroads in Selma, 1965 Crossroads in Viet Nam: LBJ and MLK, 1965 Nonviolence goes north: King in Chicago, 1966 Black power, 1966 Race and war: King at the Riverside Church, 1967 Poverty: the last crusade, 1967-68 Requiem in Memphis, 1968 Epilogue: looking back
