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EMMETT TILL KILLED
He was only 13 when he was kidnapped, beaten, and killed by 2 white men for whistling at a white woman. This is rememberd mainly becasue the murderers were acquitted. this outraged the african american people. -
ROSA PARKS BUS REFUSAL
Rosa parks was on a bus sitting in front seat when a white man ordered her to move, she refused, and was arressted. the civil rights movement gets a push from this and a snowball effect happened as this is really the first push toward civil equallity. -
LITTLE ROCK 9
9 black high school students enroll and are the first to graduate from a white school. they were harrassed and had to be guarded by the 101 first airborne divison of the us airforce. -
MARCH ON WASHINGTON
MLK calls for a peaceful march on washington dc to try and get rights and be heard. he gives his i have a dream speech here. -
MALCOM X ASSASSINATION
In Harlem, he is gunned down and killed. this shocks the civil rights leaders like MLK, but in the south the white thought he got what he deserved. He is thought to be one of the greatest african-americans in history, -
BPP FORMED
this was formed in oakland and gained national and international attention because they were wanting to get rights and equallity by any means nessacary. -
MLK JR ASSASSINATION
Martin Luthor King Jr. was assassinated outside his hotel room and this caused a split in the civil rights movement and people were rioting and were sad and confused without their leader. -
RFK ASSASSINATION
Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated 6 months after MLK and this caused another blow to the civil rights movement because he was considered a friend to the minorities. Nixon wins the election after
