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emmett louis
Emmett louis was a african american teen who one day decided to talk to a white girl and white men killed him and tossed him in a river. This event caused african americans to be out raged and stand up fight for the young boy. -
presadent eisenhower
the presadent orderd army trops to protect the little rock nine. this event sent african americans into a new era of education and desegragation. -
mark charles
mark charles sent to jail and taken by the kkk and lynched. this made african americans grow even mader and made them feel like no were is safe. -
freedom riders attack
the freedom riders a group determined to desegragate buses was attack by kkk and was almost burned alive. -
william lewis
a protester in the one-man-march in attalla atlanta was killed and got african americans mad and rilled up -
ruiend march
children poored out of school to marched for the cause of desegragation. this event got black people simpthy and help -
assassination of medgar evers
Medgar Wiley Evers was an African-American civil rights activist from Mississippi involved in efforts to overturn segregation at the University of Mississippi. until he was assanated by a gun shot in his driveway. -
church bombing
girls in church at bible study was blown up by a bomb in the church basment. this really hurt african americans because that church was were most marches start -
klan attack
james chaney, andrew goodman and micheal schwemer civil right actvist was kid naped and killed in a KKK attack in philadelphia. -
jackson murder
jamie lee jackson a a civil rights marcher who was killed by a state trooper. this got african americans more upset and they marched again. -
martin luther king killed
MLK the voice for african americans was assainated in tennessee. this shocked the whole African American community all across America
