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Emit Till
Whites Killed Emit Till and put him in river. -
Emitt Till Court
All white jury which found killers not guilty -
Sit-ins
blacks sat at diners and stayed even after getting beat up -
Ban on segragation law
Ban on segragation of public buildings -
Freedom Riders
- Two busses went through the south
- one blew up
- other bus got stopped and the whites beat everyone on it
- The remaining got arrested in Jacksonville
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Bombing of 16th st church
- Random killing of children
- Due to the KKK
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Mississippi Burning
- Blacks could register to vote
- Many risks to register
- Many showed up to register
- Imposible to pass
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2 Whites disapear
- Pres orders finding of 2 whites
- found many blacks instead
- Federal goverment charges police
- City refuses
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Montgomery bus boycott
- Martin Luther King Was Leader
- Used car pools or walked
- court order to desegrate busses
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Little Rock Nine
- 9 black children escorted by army to a white school
- Bravery influenced other black poeople to move against the whites
