Editing 1955 (section)

===March===
{{main|March 1955}}
* [[March 2]] – [[Claudette Colvin]], a 15-year-old [[African-American]] girl, refuses to give up her seat on a bus in [[Montgomery, Alabama]], to a white woman after the driver demands it. She is carried off the bus backwards, while being kicked, handcuffed and harassed on the way to the police station. She becomes a plaintiff in ''[[Browder v. Gayle]]'' (1956), which rules bus segregation to be unconstitutional.
* [[March 5]]
** [[WBBJ-TV]] signs on the air in [[Jackson, Tennessee]], with WDXI as its initial call-letters, to expand American commercial television in mostly rural areas.
** [[Elvis Presley]] makes his television debut on "[[Louisiana Hayride]]", carried by KSLA-TV Shreveport in the United States.<ref>Although audio recordings exist, there is no known video footage of this appearance.</ref>
* [[March 7]] – The [[Peter Pan (1954 musical)|Broadway musical]] version of ''[[Peter and Wendy|Peter Pan]]'', which had opened in [[1954]] starring [[Mary Martin]], is presented on television for the first time by [[NBC]]-TV, with its original cast, as an installment of ''[[Producers' Showcase]]''. It is also the first time that a stage musical is presented in its entirety on TV, almost exactly as it was performed on stage. This program gains the largest viewership of a TV special up to this time, and it becomes one of the first great TV family musical classics.
* [[March 17]] – [[Richard Riot]] in [[Montreal]]: 6,000 people protest against the [[Suspension (punishment)|suspension]] of [[French Canadian]] [[ice hockey]] star [[Maurice Richard]] of the [[Montreal Canadiens]] by the [[National Hockey League]], following a violent incident during a match.
* [[March 19]] – [[KXTV]] signs on the air in [[Sacramento, California]], as the 100th commercial television station in the United States.
* [[March 20]] – The movie adaptation of [[Ed McBain|Evan Hunter]]'s novel ''[[Blackboard Jungle]]'' premieres in the United States, featuring the famous single "[[Rock Around the Clock]]" by [[Bill Haley & His Comets]]. Teenagers jump from their seats to dance to the song.