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His great uncles home was invaded, they took him and gouged one of his eye out before they took him to a river and finished him off with a single shot to the head -
This was a 13 month mass protest for African Americans to be able to sit and ride anywhere on the bus. One of the big things that happened with this was the arrest of Rosa Parks -
Nine African American students arrived at school, when they went inside to where people were screaming racists slurs and throwing things at them. -
Young African American students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro. -
Riots erupted on the campus of the University of Mississippi in Oxford where locals, students, and committed segregationists had gathered to protest the enrollment of James Meredith, a black Air Force veteran attempting to integrate the all-white school. -
Riots erupted on the campus of the University of Mississippi in Oxford where locals, students, and committed segregationists had gathered to protest the enrollment of James Meredith, a black Air Force veteran attempting to integrate the all-white school. -
Around 1000 students skipped school and marched through the downtown. There purpose was to find the mayor and talk to him about segregation. -
It is an enduring stain on Alabama's education record and a sad testament to the treatment of its own people. It also served as a turning point for the state and its first steps toward racial equality. -
Was a white supremacist terrorist bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama -
This was a voter registration aimed to increasing the number of registered black voters in Mississippi -
Was a volunteer campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi. -
Around 600 people marched and were beating and abused by white state troopers and sheriff deputies -
It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting. -
Originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, was a Marxist-Leninist Black Power political organization founded by college students Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton -
was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesman and leader in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968