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Where: Mississippi
When: August 28, 1955
Who: Emmett Till a 14 year old was murdered by Roy Bryant and his half-brother J.W. Milam
Why: Emmett was murdered by allegedly flirting with a white woman What: In 1955 Emmett Till was brutally murder by a group of white men -
from Emmett Tills Murder in 8/28/1955 to Bloody Sunday on 1/30/1972
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Montgomery, bus boycott served approximately 40,000 black bus passengers. The Montgomery bus boycott, was a political and social protest campaign, against the policy that was given about segregation based on the persons background= color .It took place from December 5th 1995, to December 20th 1956. It occurred because the people weren’t content with what was happening because they didn’t agree with the racial segregation. The Montgomery Bus Boycott took place in Montgomery, Alabama -
Who? 4 students from north Carolina organized the Greensboro in hopes to protest racial inequality at lunch counters.
When? The Greensboro Sit-ins started on Feb 01,1960 and ended on July 25,1960
What? There goals were to end segregation in lunch counters because they believed it wasn’t fair that people were being treated differently based on there background -
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The Children's March, was a march by over 1,000 students,
What: The Children's March was an African-American youth of about 1000 teenagers who protest against segregation
When: The Children’s March took place in the year 1963 on May 2nd-3rd, -
Who? The Freedom Riders were civil right activist who wanted to end the segregation
When? The Freedom Rides took place from May 4th, 1961 to December 10th, 1961
What? The activists weren’t content with how we were segregating people based on there race so they decided to take action step by step first with bus terminals -
When: August 28, 1963, Why: the march on Washington was a march for jobs and freedom Where: Lincoln memorial
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Where: Birmingham, Alabama when: September 15, 1963, Why: This happened because the Ku Klux Klan was a secrete organization that targeted African Americans so they targeted the 16th street church and bombed it -
Who? The people who were apart of the Mississippi burning was James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner. What? The Mississippi Burning was the kidnapping and Murder of James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner by the Ku Klux Klan. When? The Mississippi Burning was on June 21st,1964. -
Why: to protest the shooting death of the activist Jimmie Lee Jackson Where: March to Selma to Montgomery When :3/7/1965 -
Who? The people who were apart of the Memphis Sanitation strike 1968. Was the Memphis Sanitation workers and it was led by T.O Jones and it also had the support of Jenny Wurf. Who was the president of the American Federation of state.
What? The Memphis Sanitation Strike was a strike from Memphis sanitation workers.
Where? The strike was in Memphis, Tennessee
