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Emmett Till was kidnapped and murdered for speaking to a white woman.
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The president had to call in troops to protect "Little Rock Nine" ( Nine African Americans that were harrassed on their way to school). The troops had to enforce desegregation.
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Mack Charles Parker was taken to jail. There, he was kidnapped by a mob and was murdered. The men who murdered him were acquitted.
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A group of Freedom Riders were attacked in Alabama for riding through southern states together. They were trying to test the desgregation laws.
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He protested against racial segregation in a one man march. He was killed on his final protest.
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To prevent more adults going to jail, they made the children march. However, Brimingham police used dogs fire hoses to attack the children.
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Medgar Evers was the civil rights leader and he was assainated.
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Four school girls were murdered in the church bombing on 16th St. Baptist Church.
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Civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwemer were kidnapped and murdered by Klu Klux Klan.
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Jimmie Lee Jackson was a civil rights marcher and he was killed by a state trooper.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assainated.
