White landowners throw black sharecroppers in Fayette and Haywood counties off their land because the blacks were trying to vote. Six Lane College students arrested for challenging segregated seating on buses in Jackson. Blacks launch bus boycott. Jackson bus boycott ends when manager desegregates seating. Lane students begin sit-ins at Woolworth's and McLellan's lunch counters.
Angry whites remove black students from counters, and five blacks are arrested.
Police jail 144 black people, mostly Lane College students, after they stage an Election Day march in support of voting rights in Haywood and Fayette counties. The U.S. Department of Justice files lawsuit to stop white landowners in Fayette County from evicting blacks for trying to vote. Blacks are also boycotting downtown businesses. Memphis schools begin desegregation. University of Tennessee admits first black undergraduates.