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Emmett Till
in the summer of 1955 in Mississippi Emmett till got taken away,beaten,and drowned. At his funeral he had an open casket so the world could see what they had did to her son. -
Montgomery "bus boycott"/Rosa Parks
In Montgomery,Alabama Rosa Parks sat in the front of the bus where the whites could only sit, a white man came on the bus and wanted her seat and she refused to give up her seat.She got arrested for not giving her seat to the white man because blacks had to sit in the back. -
intergration of little rock central high school
In Little Rock,Arkansaw 9 black chilldren were harrassed and threatened by a mob while walkin so a white woman helped one of the black children to a bus for safety -
Lunch Counter" sit ins"
there were segregated lunch counters.some sit ins if you were black they wouldnt serve you the manager would come out and say they couldnt serve you and threaten to call the cops -
"freedom rides"
south was free,people would not let them get away they would burn busses,get protection fron police and would shout out mean words -
birmingham.alabama "letter from birmingham jail"
The Letter from Birmingham Jail (also known as "Letter from Birmingham City Jail" and "The Negro Is Your Brother") is an open letter written on April 16, 1963, by Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Birmingham,Alabama
in alabama blacks would boycott even there own leader Martin Luther King Jr was arrested -
birmingham,alabama bombing of the 16th street baptist church
On Sunday morning, September 15, 1963, the Ku Klux Klan bombed the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four girls. This murderous act shocked the nation and galvanized the civil rights movement. -
voting rights action:registration drive
(summer of 1964)so many thousands of people said yes ill be there even though they knew that whites were only aloud to vote.
but they risked there lives,there jobs,there homes,and there families nd went to register to vote