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Emmett Til Loius murdered for speaking to white woman
His friends dared him to compliment to store owners wife, -
President Eisenhower orders federal troops to enforce school desegregation. Little Rock, AR
The troops acted as security to them. -
Mack Charles Parker taken from jail and lynched, Popular Ville, MS.
He was accused of rape, -
Freedom riders attacked in Alabama while white testing compliance with bus desegregation laws
The rode through extreme racists town protesting for equal bus rights, -
William Lewis Moore slain during one-man march against segregation, Attalla, AL.
Killed by KKK. -
Birmingham police attack marching children with dogs and fire hoses
They wanted to stop them from protesting -
Medgar Evers civil rights leader, assassinated, Jackson, MS.
Evers was assassinated by Byron De La Beckwith, a member of the White Citizens' Council. -
Schoolgirls Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley die in the bombing of 16th St. Baptist Church, Birmingham, AL
They bombed a church and killed four little girls. -
Civil rights worker James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwemer abducted and slain by Klan. Philadelphia.MS
Three American civil rights workers who were murdered during Freedom Summer by members of the Ku Klux Klan near Philadelphia, Mississippi. -
Jimmie Lee Jackson, civil rights marcher, killed by state trooper, Marion, AL.
civil rights protestor who was shot and killed by Alabama State Trooper James Bonard Fowler -
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated, Memphis, TN
He was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968, at the age of 39.
