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The Murder of Emmett Till
On August 24, 1955, fourteen year old, Emmett Till was allegedly seen to be flirting with a white women that ran a store. After her husband heard of this, four days later, he went to the house he was staying in Mississippi where two men dragged him to the Tallahatchie River, after beating him then proceeded to shot him in the head and tied his body with barbed wire to a fan and then dumped the young boys body into the river. Officals found his body after his relative reported him missing. -
Greensboro Four
Four black freshmen at North Carolina A&T State University sat at the segregated lunch counter at F. W. Woolworth's in Greensboro, N.C and were refused service and the men sat there peacefully until the store closed. The men were named Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil, Ezell Blair, Jr., and David Richmond. The next day they returned and brought 25 other students and were still refused service.They became icons for the Civil Rights Movenment after. http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0900073.html -
The Murder of Medgar Evans
Medgar Evans, Civil Rights activist and field secratary for the NAACP in Mississippi. His two children witnessed him getiing shot in the back with shirts in his hands that said, "Jim Crow Must Go". The murder, white supremist, Byron De La Beckwith, was tried twice, and both by an all white jury and was found not guilty. The trial was opened again and he was finally found guilty in 1994 and was sentenced life in prison.
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Civil Rights
The Civil RIghts Movement ended segregation in public places and discrimination in the workplace on race, color, religion, sex and national orgin, It was proposed by John F, Kennedy and it aimed for equality for African Americans. -
Same Sex Marriage in Massachusetts
