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Emmett Till
African American young boy who was murdered for saying "bye baby" to a white store owners wife . -
President Eisenhower
President Eisenhower order 1,100 federal troops to little Rock Central to enforce school desegregation for the whole school year. -
Lynching of Charles Parker
Mack Charles Parker was an African American was accused of kidnapping and raping a white women. He was taken from jail and lynched. -
The Freedom Riders
The Freedom Riders were a group of blacks and white who rode the bus into segregated Southern States. The Freedom Riders were attacked by KKK members in Alabama. -
William Lewis Moore
William Lewis Moore was a white member of CORE and was murdered on his first protest for racial segregation -
Bombingham
1000 children show up to peacefully protest to end segregation and racial hatred and Birmingham police attack them with dogs and fire hoes. -
Medgar Evers assassinated
African-American civil rights activist from Mississippi involved in efforts to overturn segregation at the University of Mississippi. He became a field secretary for the NAACP. Evers was assassinated by Byron De La Beckwith, a member of the White Citizens' Council. -
16th Street Baptist Church bombing
Four young girls attending Sunday school was murdered from a bombing in the church basement. This was an act of racially motivated terrorism. A Ku Klux Klan group planted a box of dynamite with a time delay under the steps of the church around 10:22 a.m is when the bomb went off -
Mississippi civil rights workers murders
James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael "Mickey" Schwerner, were lynched by members of the Mississippi White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. They had been working on the Freedom Summer campaign, attempting to register African Americans to vote. -
The Death of Jimmie Lee
When Jimmie Lee attempted to protect his mother, one trooper threw him against a cigarette machine. A second trooper shot him twice in the abdomen. He later died at Good Samaritan Hospital in Selma -
Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was an American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader of the African-American civil rights movement and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who became known for his advancement of civil rights by using civil disobedience. He was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis by James Earl Ray,
