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Emmett Till was 14 years old, an African American from Chicago.
On August 24, standing with his cousins and friends outside a store, Emmett bragged that his "girlfriend" back home was white. So was dared to ask the white woman sitting behind the counter for a date. The woman's husband and his brother made Emmett carry a 75-pound cotton grin fan to the bank of the Tallahatchie River. They gouged out his eye and shot him in the head and threw his body. -
"The Montgomery bus boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery".-cited. The campaign lasted from December 5, 1955, the Monday after Rosa Parks, an African-American-woman, was arrested for not giving-up for her seat for a white person. Rosa Parks sparked this action and it happened to desegregation on every bus. The ten front seats were reserved for white people all times. -
The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina. Led to chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States. The sit-in was an act of civil disobedience. A tactic that aroused sympathy for the demonstrators among moderates and uninvolved individuals. -
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode buses into the segregated South United States in 1961. Ruled the segregated public buses were unconstitutional. The Southern states ignored the rulings and the federal government did nothing to enforce them. -
Children's March (Children's Crusade) was a march of over 5,000 students in Birmingham, Alabama thru May 2--3 of 1963. Was organized by Rev. James Bevel because they wanted to talk about the segregation in the city. Children had to leave their schools with being arrested, set free, then got arrested again. Event showed JFK to support federal rights and led to passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. -
The March on Washington for Jobs and freedom
250,000 people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial, and more than 3,000 members of the press covered the event. By the 1960s, a public expression of dissatisfaction with the status quo was considered necessary and a march was planned. The event attention to continuing challenges and inequalities faced by African Americans a century after emancipation. It was the occasion of Martin Luther King Jr.’s iconic “I Have a Dream” speech. A massive protest. -
The bombing was a white supremacist terrorist in Birmingham, Alabama. 4 members of local Klansmen planted 19 sticks of dynamite with a timing device located on the east side of the church. The explosion killed 4 girls & injured to 22 people. "Acts of violence followed the settlement. The Klansmen's were known to express frustration when they saw a lack of effective resistance to integration." The popular rallied out civil rights activists, so 16th Street Baptist Church was an obvious target. -
Victims are James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner. All three were associated with the Council of Federated Organizations. The three left town in their car, and were followed by law enforcement and others. They were abducted and driven to a location and was shot to death at close range. The bodies were taken and were buried. They were murdered by the Ku Klux Klan because Chaney was African-American and Goodman and Schwerner were Jewish. -
Memphis sanitation strike was the response deaths of sanitation workers on February 12, 1986 in Memphis, Tennessee Over 1,300 African American men wanted better work environments, higher pays etc. The major refused to get involved and rejected the council vote for the strike. Due to these events Martin Luther King Jr famously gave "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech. -
Bloody Sunday (Bogside Massacre) was a mass shooting of 26 unarmed civilians from British Soldiers on January 30, 1972 in Derry, Northern Ireland. About 14 were dead and 15+ were injured from the incident. Some were shot by trying to run away from the Soldiers or trying to help others. March was organized by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA).