Dr. King Timeline: "1960
January 24: The King family moves to Atlanta. Dr. King becomes co-pastor, with his father, of the Ebenezer Baptist Church.
February 1: Students in Greensboro, North Carolina launch widely publicized sit-ins which spark a wave of similiar protests throughout the south.
February 17: A warrant is issued for Dr. King's arrest on charges that he did not pay his 1956 and 1958 Alabama state income taxes.
April 15: The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) is founded to coordinate student protest at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, on a temporary basis. It becomes permanent in October 1960.
May 28: Dr. King is acquitted of the tax evasion charge by an all-white jury in Montgomery.
June 24: Dr. King has a conference with John F. Kennedy, candidate for President of the United States, about racial matters.
October 19-27: Dr. King is arrested at an Atlanta sit-in and is jailed on a charge of violating the state's trespass law. That charge is dropped but King is still held on a charge of violating his probation in a traffic arrest case. He is ultimately transferred to Reidsville State Prison, where he is released on a two-thousand-dollar bond."