A 1952, Regional Council of Negro Leadership (RCNL), jagorancin T. R. M. Howard, likitan likitan fata, dan kasuwa, da kuma mai shuka, ya shirya nasarar yin watsi da tashoshin gas a Mississippi wanda ya ki samar da dakunan wanka ga baƙi. Ta hanyar RCNL, Howard ya jagoranci yakin da za a fallasa zalunci ta hanyar Mississippi State Highway Patrol da kuma karfafa baƙi don yin ajiyar kuɗi a cikin bankin Tri-State Bank na Nashville wanda ke da baki, wanda ya ba da bashi ga masu fafutukar kare hakkin bil'adama waɗanda suka kamu da cutar "credit squeeze" ta White Citizens 'Councils. Bayan da aka kama Claudette Colvin saboda ba ta ba da wurin zama a Montgomery, Alabama a watan Maris na shekarar 1955, an yi la'akari da takunkumi na bas da aka ƙi kuma Rev. Rosa Parks ya yi watsi da shi a lokacin da aka kama shi a watan Disamba na shekarar 1957, ya jagoranci yakin da aka yi wa 'yan adawa da' yan adawa da suka yi wa' yan adawa da suka yi wa' yan adawa da suka yi wa'adawa da
Shekara ta 1956