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Violence and The Civil Rights Movement

By DT5666

  • Emmett Till murdered

    Emmett Till murdered
    Emmet Till was murdered for speaking to a white woman, Money, MS.

  • Enforce troops

    Enforce troops
    President Eisenhower demands states troops to enforce school desegregation in Little Rock, AR.

  • Taken and lynched.

    Taken and lynched.
    Mack Charles Parker was taken from the jail he was in and lynched in Popularville, MS.

  • Attacked in Alabama

    Attacked in Alabama
    The Freedom Riders was attacked in while testing the bus desegregation laws.

  • Slain during march.

    Slain during march.
    William Lewis Moore was killed during an one-man march against segregation in Attalla, AL.

  • Children attacked.

    Children attacked.
    Birmingham police attacked marching children with dogs and fire hoses.

  • Civil righer leader assassinated.

    Civil righer leader assassinated.
    Civil right leader , Medgar Evers was assassinated in Jackson, MS.

  • Schoolgirls killed.

    Schoolgirls killed.
    4 schoolgirls killed in the bombing of the 16th st. church in Birmingham, AL.

  • Civil right workers slain.

    Civil right workers slain.
    3 civil rights workers was abducted and slain by the KKK, in Philadelphia, MS.

  • Civil Rights Marcher Killed

    Civil Rights Marcher Killed
    Civil right marcher Jimmie Lee Jackson was killed by an state trooper in Mation, AL.

  • MLK Assassinated

    MLK Assassinated
    Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, TN.