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Escape of Harriet Tubman
harriet tubman was an american bond women who escaped from slavery to become the leading abolitionist before the American Civil War -
the south seceds
When abraham lincol was elected president it was a well nown thing that ihe was against slavery. -
Civil war " Abraham Lincoln takes action "
on january 27th, president Lincoln issued a war order autherizing the union to launch a unified aggresive action against the Confederacy. general mcClellan ignored his orders. -
brown v. board of education
the story of brown vs. board of education ended legal segregation. wich they never thought that it would change history -
Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson was the first African-American to play major league baseball. he was named the region's Most Valuable Player in baseball in 1938. -
Emmett Till murder
Emmett Till, a 14 year old boy from chicago, visiting his relatives was snatched from his uncles house on the night of august 28th. he was beaten, shot in the head and then thrown in the Tallahatchie River. -
Rosa Parks Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks did not start the boycott, but her arrest for not giving up her seat to a white man on December 1, 1955, was the reason African-American community leaders organized the protest. -
Little Rock 9
they didnt start out as little rock nine but now they are in american history books.these nine studentrs were the first african americans to intigrate into a all white school. ernist green, Elizabeth Eckford, Jefferson Thomas, Dr. Terrence Roberts, Carlotta Walls Lanier, Minnijean Brown Trickey, Gloria Ray Karlmark, Thelma Mothershed-Wair, and
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sixteenth strreet baptist church
on a sunday the klu klux klan bombed the sixteenth street baptist church, killing four girls. this mourders act shocked the nation and galvanized the civil rights movement. -
Martin Luther King Assassanation
civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was hit by a sniper's bullet. King had been standing on the balcony in front of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, when, without warning, he was shot. The .30-caliber rifle bullet entered King's right cheek, traveled through his neck, and finally stopped at his shoulder blade. King was immediately taken to a nearby hospital but was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m.
