But the boycott was just getting started, and at the end of January 1956, Martin Luther King Jr.’s home was firebombed. He wasn’t home, and fortunately, the rest of his family wasn’t injured.[12] Jo Ann Robinson’s car had acid poured all over it. Her front window shattered when a huge rock was thrown through it. Both of these acts of vandalism were carried out by police officers in uniform in broad daylight.[13] But still, she refused to quit.
