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Two white men kidnapped Till, beat him and shot him in the head.
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In 1956, the Supreme Court voted to end segregated busing. In 1955, a little-known minister named Martin Luther King Jr. led the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery.
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Africans Americans whose went to a little white school in Arkansas.
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a wave of student sit-ins and protests that flash like fire across the South.
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A movement organized in early 1963 by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama.
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It was designed to pressure the U.S. government into desegregating the armed forces and providing fair working opportunities for African Americans.
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Civil rights activist Medgar Evers was born on July 2, 1925, in Decatur, Mississippi. In 1954, he became the first state field secretary of the NAACP in Mississippi.
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On 25 March 1965, Martin Luther King led thousands of nonviolent demonstrators to the steps of the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, after a 5-day, 54-mile march from Selma, Alabama, where local African Americans
