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Violence and Civil Rights Movement

  • Emmett Till

    Emmett Till
    African American young boy who was murdered for saying "bye baby" to a white store owners wife .This is important beucase they did this to the boy for sayign two words for nothing.
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    Violence and Civil Rights Movement

  • President Eisenhower

    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

    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.This is important becuase they didnt even give him a chance to see if its true or nto
  • The Freedom Riders

    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
    William Lewis Moore was a white member of CORE and was murdered on his first protest for racial segregation
  • Bombingham

    Bombingham
    1000 children show up to peacefully protest to end segregation and racial hatred and Birmingham police attack them with dogs and fire hose.This is important beucasr htey did this to the kids and the kids didnt do nothing
  • Medgar Evers assassinated

    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

    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

    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

    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.

    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.