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52
brown vs board of education
Over 200 black students wanted to be able to attend schools near
their homes and schools with better conditions, like the schools for white children. -
54
Emmitt Till
Emmitt till was a 14-year-old boy who was tortured and brutally murdered by 2 white men in Money, Mississippi, because of a white woman that he had flirted with. -
Period: 54 to 68
Children and Youth in the civil Rights Movement
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55
Claudette Colvin
On the city bus after school, she refused to give up
her seat to a white woman, so she was dragged off of the bus and arrested and was yelling “It’s my constitutional right!” to sit where she
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56
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
After Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat on the city bus to a white person, African-Americans boycotted the buses. -
57
Little Rock Nine
President Eisenhower sent in helicopters and jeeps, as well as armed soldiers to escort the 9 students from class to class. Later the soldiers (all white) said they were honored and proud to carry out their duties for the Little Rock Nine -
58
Ernest Green
Ernest Green is one of the Little Rock Nine, a group of African-American students who, in 1957, were the first black students ever to attend classes at Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Green was the first African-American to graduate from the school in 1958. -
60
Ruby Bridges
Ruby Bridges was the first African American to attend William Frantz
Elementary School. There were white parents who took their children out of school because they didn't want their kids going to school with a black kid. There was one teacher that stayed and taught Ruby for over a year. -
63
Childrens Crusade
Many young children were arrested and thrown in jail during the Children’s Crusade. Their only “crime” was protesting racial discrimination. -
63
March on Washington
250,000 people participated in the march on Washington, D.C. People marched for freedom and fair hiring practices. -
63
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing
On Sunday, September 15, 1963, the church was bombed by members of the Ku Klux Klan, killing 4 young girls and injuring 22 other people. -
64
Mississippi Burning Case
Ben Chaney’s brother, James Chaney, along with 2 other civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman and Mickey Schwerner, were murdered by Ku Klux Klan members in Philadelphia, Mississippi. The 3 were part of Freedom Summer, a movement that registered blacks to vote in the state of Mississippi. -
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Sheyann Webb
She went to the church to see what was going on and one day met Martin Luther King, Jr. there. She always sat in the front row during the meetings, and became a friend of Dr. King, who called her “The Smallest Freedom Fighter”.
