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Emmett was killed of hate crime for playing around with a white women. This raised awareness of white on black hatred crimes.
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President enforces troops with schools desegregation, Little Rock 9. It help schools be intergated.
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Mack was lynched after tooken out of jail . It impacted African American lives that the KKK wasn't playing.
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The freedom riders were blacks and whites that rode on Greyhound to all of the Southern states. Inspired people to intergrade.
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During the one-man march he was slain. It took the effect of African Americans to fight against segregation.
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Police attacked school children and adults on the march with fire hoses. The affacted that it had on African Americans was that the government wasn't going up.
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Was the coordinator for the NAACP and others. Got killed when he was going into his house by KKK member.The reaction was it made African Americans go harder than even , it didn't stop them.
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The KKK bombed the church with 4 young girls in there, they all died, they were innocent. It was important to African Americans because it was for no reason.
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Civil Rights workers were tooken by the KKK and killed. It was important to African Americans because it showed that it was time for the KKK to go.
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Jimmie was a Civil Rights protestor, who got shot by a trooper. He wasn't armed. His death inspired the Selma to Montgomery marches,
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood up for equal rights and civil rights. He was assassinated April 4. He was very important to African American because he guided us to where we are today.
