Emmett Till murdered in Money, Mississippi by Roy Bryant for talking to his wife
Emmett Till murdered
Emmett Till trial throughout September; murderers judged as innocent.
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Rosa Parks being arrested for sitting at the front of a bus (African Americans were not allowed to do that) leads to Montgomery bus boycott; ends with Supreme Court decision that segregated buses are unconstitutional.
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Little Rock Nine: 9 black children were blocked from attending a white school as part of an integration plan; President Eisenhower orders national guard paratroopers guarding the students as they walked to school.
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Black tudents protest lunchroom segregation by siting in lunchrooms and resturants where there was segregation.
First "Freedom Ride" to protest segregation.
Bus 1 destroyed by white protesters in Birmingham, Alabama.
Bus 2 is attacked by a white mob in Montgomery, Alabama.
Marin Luther King Sr. writes letter from Birmingham jail in response to white religious leaders syaing that he had gone to far with the civil rights movement.
16th Baptist Church Bombings by KKK; four young African American girls are killed
"Bloody Sunday": March from Selma to Montgomery protesting the death of Jiimie Lee Jackson were attacked by police.
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Marches from Selma to Montgomery by civil-rights activists to protest segregation
Marchers are turned back by police after crossing the Edmund Peetus Bridge.
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Marchers march from Selmy to the capital in Montgomery, protected by the Alabam National Guard, FBI agents, and Federal Marshals.