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Emmet Til was killed for speaking to a white woman, in Money, MS. It motivated the African Americans Civil Right Act Movement.
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President Eisenhower orders federal troops to enforce school desegregation, in Little Rock, AR.
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Mack Charles Parker was taken from jail and lynched in Popularville, MS. It caused controversy throughout the negro race.
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The freedom riders was attacked in Alabama while testing the compliance with bus desegregation laws. It was important because it got the CRA movement more attention.
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During an one-man march against segregation, William Moore was killed in Attalla, AL.
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Birmingham police attacked the marching children with dogs and fire hoses. It was important because it got the CRA movement more attention.
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Civil rights leader, Medgar Evers was assassinated in Jackson, MS. It made African Americans fight even harder for civil rights because one of there leaders was assassinated.
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4 schoolgirls die in the 16th St. church bombing in Birmingham, AL. It helped draw national attention to the struggle for civil rights for African Americans.
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3 civil rights workers abducted and slain by the KKK, in Philadelphia, MS.
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An civil rights marcher named Jimmie Lee Jackson was killed by an state trooper, Marion, AL. It was important because it got the CRA movement more attention.
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Dr. Martin Luther King was aasassinated in Memphis, TN. It was important becuase he was the biggest leader in the civil rights movement.
