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-Emmet Louis Till was a 14-yuear-old African American boy
-The boy spent his summer in Mississippi to visit his relatives. He was abducted by Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, his half-brother
-The men tied his body to a very large fan with barbed wire and then dumped his body into the river. Moses Wright, his great-uncle reported the kidnapping to the police
-2 men were arrested the next day but nothing happened
-All this happened because he whistle at white women -
-Years before the boycott, Dexter Avenue minister Vemon Johns sat down in the “whites only” section of a city bus when the driver ordered him off the bus.
-Johns urged other passengers to join him.
-This event took place in December 1, 1955 and Vemon johns wasn’t the only that this happen to it was African Americans were boycotted and escorted off of this bus.
-They had decided to start a movement and more than 17,000 African Americans marched for what is right -
-Series of nonviolent protesters happened from February to July of 1960
-Most protests happened in the Woolworth store
-F. W. Woolworth Company department store chain removed their policy of racial segregation in the South -
-Klansmen set the bus on fire with people on it
- There were 27 freedom riders that kept going and made it to Jackson, Mississippi that got arrested
-More than 400 engaged American rode with the ''Freedom Rides''
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-The Children's Crusade was a march by hundreds of school students in Birmingham, Alabama, from May 2-5 of 1963, during the American Civil Rights Movement's Birmingham Campaign.
-The purpose of the march was to walk downtown to talk to the mayor about segregation in their city.
-Many children left their schools in order to be arrested, set free, and then to get arrested again the next day.
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-This event took place in Washington, D.C
-There were 250,000 people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial
-There were 3,000 members of the press covered the event
-In this "March on Washington DC" the famous Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the historic "I Have A Dream" speech
-With Martin Luther King Jr. delivering his speech it help end racism -
-Terrorist caused the 16th Street Church Bombing
-14 people were left injured
-4 girls died due to the 16th Street Church Bombing
-Terrorist used homemade bombs which were planted "by white supremacists in homes and churches became so commonplace that the city was sometimes known as “Bombingham.” -
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-Sanitation workers in Memphis were basically just African American
-African Americans were getting payed 1 dollar per hour
-Even when they tried to fight so they would get payed more, it failed because no one supported them
-Everything changed once everything was switched to malfunctioning
-James Lawson wad a leader to a crowd of between 15,000 and 25,000 people which was the largest gathering in history -
Schwerner was being looked for by June 16, the KKK burned down a church looking for him. Not being able to find him they burned the church and beat the churchgoers. The men went to investigate the church the on June 20, 1964. The police had stopped them, reason being because they were "Speeding." That night the Ku Klux Klan ambushed them, and they were shot by the Klan and died. All 3 men went missing on June 21, 1964. Well the bodies we never found