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Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee by James Earl Ray, a convicted criminal. However, there are many conspiracy theories surrounding his death. -
Malcolm X, a civil rights leader, was assassinated on February 21, 1965 in Harlem, New York. He was shot and killed at age 39 while preparing to give a speech at the Audubon Ballroom. -
The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPP) was founded in October 1966 in Oakland, California by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, who met at Merritt College in Oakland. -
Planted by members of the Ku Klux Klan, the bomb killed four girls, Addie Mae Collins (14), Denise McNair (11), Carole Robertson (14), and Cynthia Wesley (14) and injured seventeen others -
the Mississippi state field secretary for the NAACP, was shot and killed in the back on June 12, 1963. The assassination galvanized the civil rights movement and helped lead to the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. Her arrest helped spark the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Civil Rights Movement. -
was a 14-year-old Black boy who was murdered in 1955 while visiting family in Mississippi. His death sparked the Civil Rights Movement. -
It was a key event in the American civil rights movement. -
mandated the desegregation of the U.S. military, effectively abolishing racial discrimination in the armed forces based on race, color, religion, or national origin; it essentially ensured "equality of treatment and opportunity" for all service members regardless of background. -
Jackie Robinson became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball on April 15, 1947. He played for the Brooklyn Dodgers against the Boston Braves at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn. -
It was the first federal civil rights legislation since the Civil Rights Act of 1875. -
Freedom Summer was a 1964 civil rights campaign to register Black voters in Mississippi. It was a turning point in the Civil Rights Movement. -
The Birmingham Children's March, also known as the Children's Crusade, was a series of nonviolent protests in Birmingham, Alabama. The march was a pivotal moment in the civil rights movemen