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He was a 14 year old African American that was murdered for being accused of offending a white women. When he was murdered his body was dumped into a river. When they found his body it was hard to identify who it was because his body was so beaten and bruised. -
An organization formed by black ministers and community leaders under the leadership of Ralph Abernathy, Martin Luther King Jr, and Edgar Nixon. -
It started when Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man. It was a 13 month mass protest that ended with the U.S surpreme court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutiuonal -
This was the first civil rights legislation since Reconstitution. It established a federal Civil Rights commision with authority to investigate discriminatory conditions.