Civil Rights

  • The 14 year old Emmet Till was murdered for flirting with a white woman

  • Rosa Parks wouldn't give up her seat to a white man

  • The "freedom riders" attempted to use "whites only" lunch counters and toilets, this marked them by horrific violence from white protectors

  • President Johnson signed another civil rights act for any discrimination

  • Malcolm X was murdered during a rally by muslims

  • Bloody Sunday

  • President Johnson signed the Fair Housing Act which was a civil rights act

  • Martin Luther King Jr was murdered on his balcony by James Earl Ray