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Witness to murder of civil rights worker assassinated
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i. Plessy vs Ferguson
ii. 12 black students were denied enrollment in a white school.
iii. The court declared state laws seperate public schools for black and white students to be uncostitutional. -
Killed for leading a voter registration drive in Balzoni, Mississppi.
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Murdered for organizing black voters in Brookhaven, Mississippi.
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Murdered for speaking to a white woman Money, Mississippi.
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Killed by nightriders oppposed to school improvements Mayflower, Texas
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i. She sat at the front of a bus in Alabama after a white man asked her to get up.
ii. Rosa was arrested immediatly afterwards, and later the supreme court banned segregation on city buses, -
The bus boycott begins
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Supreme court bans segregated bus seating on Montgomery buses.
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Killed by Klansman Montgomery, Alabama
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i. President Eisenhower
ii. He got blacks to vote -
i. 9 black students enrolled at a white school.
ii. they protected them by doing such things as walking them through the side door, to avoid mobs -
Taken from jain and lynched Poplarville, Mississippi.
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Blacks sit at whites only lunch counter in North Carolina
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Supreme Court bans segregation on bus transportation\
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i. Civil rights activists
ii. Congress of racial euality (CORE)
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Herbert Lee was a voter registration worker killed by a white legistlator.
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Civil rights groups join together to launch a voter registration drive.
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Taken from bus and killed by police.
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i. Riots occured and 2 people ended up dead
ii. Kennedy called out 31000 national guardsmen to enfore order -
French reporters killed during Ole Miss riot
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Killed during one-man march against segregation
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Attacked marching children with dogs and fire hoses
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George Wallace stands in schoolhouse doors to stop university integration
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i. African American civil rights activist
ii. He was shot by a white in his driveway -
i. Americans marched to Washington DC to see Martin Luther King's speech
ii. The "I have a dream" speech -
Schoolgirls were killed in bombing of The Baptist Church
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Killed during a wave of racist violance
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Poll tax outlawed in federal elections
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Killed protesting construction of segregated school
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Henry Oee and Charles Moore were killed by klansmen
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Freedom Summer brings 1,000 young civil rights volunteers to Mississippi.
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James Chany, Andrew Goodman, and Micheal Schewerner were civil rights workers that were abducted and slain by klansmen
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i. President Johnson
ii. outlawed discrimintation against gender, race, religion, color, or national origin -
Lt. Penn was killed by a klansmen while driving north
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He was a civil rights marcher that was killed by a state trooper
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State troopers beat back marchers here
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March volunteer beaten to death
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i. to register black voters in the south
ii. violent risitance by state and local authoritites
iii. A voting rights act was passed later that year -
Viola Liuzzo was killed by a klansman while transporting marchers
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Oneal was a black deputy killed by nightriders
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Congressed passes the Voting Rights Act of 1965
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Willie was killed by nightriders
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Jonathan was a siminary student that was killed by a deputy
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Samuel was a student civil rights activast that was killed in a despute
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Vernon was a black community leader killed in klan bombing
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Ben White was killed by a klansmen
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Clarance was slain by nightriders
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Warlest was a civil rights leader killed after promotion to 'white' job
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Benjamin was a civil rights worker killed when police fired on protesters
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i. he worked in the staff in the NAACP
ii. he was the nations first black justice -
Samuel Hammond Jr, Delano Middleton, and Henry Smith were students killed when a highway patrolmen fired on protesters
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i. he was planning for a march to Washington to lobby congress on behalf of the poor
ii. he wsa a huge symbol for blacks and changed many viewpoints on some whites perspectives.
