November - Katz denies service to Edna Griffin, John Bibbs, Arthur Bryant, Barbara Williams, Kenneth Walker, Leonard Hudson, and Gordon Jasper, who file civil lawsuits. Iowa Supreme Court upholds the conviction in State v. Katz. Brown v. Bd. of Education. 1955 December - Rosa Parks of Montgomery, AL, refuses to give up her seat on a bus to a white man, triggering a 13 month bus boycott which eventually integrated the transportation system. 1960 College students in Nashville, TN, begin lunch counter sit-ins.
Movement spreads to other cities.
Edna Griffin leads the Iowa Delegation to the March. July 2 - President Lyndon Johnson signs into law the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The Iowa Civil Rights Act of 1965 is passed and signed into law by Governor Harold Hughes.