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civil rights organization in the United States as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group of people. -
An African- American civil rights organization in the United States that played a crucial role for African Americans in the civil rights movement. -
Emmett Till went to visit family in Money, Mississippi, he was only 14 years old and was an African American from Chicago. He was brutally murdered for flirting with a white woman four days earlier. Bryant's husband Roy and his half-brother J.W. Milam captured Emmett and beat/ mutilated him before shooting him in the head and sinking his body in the Tallahatchie River. -
It was the principal channel of students commitment in the United States to the civil rights movement. -
It brought the fight for civil rights to the national stage. Its use of nonviolence inspired freedom riders and others to take up the cause of integration in the South, furthering the cause of equal rights in the United States. -
Civil Rights activists rode interstate buses into the segregation Southern United States. -
One quiet Sunday morning at around 10:24 am a dynamite bomb exploded in the back stairwell of the downtown sixteenth Street Baptist Church. It was a clear act of racial hatred. The violent blast ripped through the wall, killing four African- American girls on the other side and injuring more than 20 inside the church. -
The right citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied by the United States or any state by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax. -
Prohibits discrimination on the basis o race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
Martin Luther King, Jr, and other civil rights activists coordinated and assist local organizations working for the full equality of African Americans.