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On August 28, 1955, a 14-year-old from Chicago is brutally murdered in Mississippi for allegedly flirting with a white woman. His murderers are acquitted, and the case bring international attention to the civil rights movement after Jet magazine publishes a photo of Till’s beaten body at his open-casket funeral. -
She was sitting in the front of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama and she was asked to move to the back and she did not. The bus driver yelled at her multiple times and the police were called. She was arrested for not moving to the back of the bus -
On September 3, 1957, nine Black students, known as the Little Rock Nine attended an all black school but when segregation was abolished they had to attend a different school called Central High School. The first day they tried to go in they were met by security and removed from the area. They went back a few days later and made it inside but they eventually all had to be removed because of the violence that was stirring inside of the school. -
Even though all Americans had gained the right to vote, many southern states made it difficult for Black citizens. They often required prospective voters of color to take literacy tests that were confusing, misleading and nearly impossible to pass. On September 9, 1957, President Eisenhower signed the Civil Rights Act of 1957 into law, the first major civil rights legislation since Reconstruction. It allowed federal prosecution of anyone who tried to prevent someone from voting. -
On February 1, 1960, four African American college students in Greensboro, North Carolina refuse to leave a Woolworth’s “whites only” lunch counter without being served. The Greensboro Four—Ezell Blair Jr., David Richmond, Franklin McCain and Joseph McNeil—were inspired by the nonviolent protest of Gandhi. The Greensboro Sit-In, as it came to be called, sparks similar “sit-ins” throughout the city and in other states. -
This was the largest political rally for human rights ever in the United States. An estimated 200,000 to 300,000 participants converged on the Mall in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 28, 1963, to protest for jobs and freedom for African Americans. King delivered his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. The March on Washington is credited with helping pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964 -
Trayvon Martin was walking to his father's house in Sanford, Florida when a man was in his SUV and called the police about a "Suspicious person" talking about Trayvon. The police told the man to stay in his SUV and not approach the man. The man disregarded the cops and approached Trayvon and shot and killed him. He said it was out of self defense. -
The KKK is still around during this time. In 2017 they saw an increase in there membership from 2016. There is an estimated 3,000 Klan members across 22 states. -
In Brunswick in Glynn County, Georgia Ahmaud Arbery was a 25 year old African American man who was peacefully jogging through his neighborhood. While he was jogging two white trucks pulled up on him and shot him. They were all white men who shot him too.He died on the spot. He was hunted down by white residents where he lived. Georgia’s attorney general, Chris Carr, said in a statement. “The family, the community and the state of Georgia deserve answers.” -
Breonna Taylor was a medical worker in Louisville, Kentucky. There was a raid outside of her house when a police officer who didn't have a clear shot shot his gun and it went straight through her window and shot Breonna Taylor. The shot killed her in her own apartment. The police officer was white. Ms. Taylor’s mother, Tamika Palmer, said over the summer as she beseeched the authorities to bring criminal charges. “We’ve got to figure out how to fix the city, how to heal from here.” -
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/civil-rights-movement
https://www.cnn.com/2013/06/05/us/trayvon-martin-shooting-fast-facts
https://www.nytimes.com/article/breonna-taylor-police.html
https://www.aarp.org/politics-society/history/info-2018/civil-rights-events-fd.html
https://www.nytimes.com/article/ahmaud-arbery-shooting-georgia.html
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/2017-08-14/the-kkk-is-still-based-in-22-states-in-the-us-in-2017 -
This chart is showing the murder chart of different races. As it shows more African Americans have been killed than any other race. The crime rate for African Americans is going down but not slow enough they are still being killed more than any other race. Sometimes they get murdered just because people of other ethnicities don't like them. It's not right -
This map is showing the population of African Americans across the country. Most African Americans live in the south still because they were enslaved there and never got the chance to move out. The population is heavy there but it is continuing to grow more east, west, and north. -
“If you can’t fly, run; if you can’t run, walk; if you can’t walk, crawl; but by all means keep moving.” “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” MLK is trying to prove that violence is not the answer and it still shows in todays society. When the BLM riots were going on, there was no reason for violence. A peaceful protest would have made more of an impact than a violent one
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