Civil Rights Movement.

By Opico28

  • The murder of Emmit.

    The murder of Emmit.
    Two white men kidnapped Till, beat him and shot him in the head.

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott
    In 1956, the Supreme Court voted to end segregated busing. In 1955, a little-known minister named Martin Luther King Jr. led the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery.

  • Little Rock Nine.

    Little Rock Nine.
    Africans Americans whose went to a little white school in Arkansas.

  • Sit-ins

    Sit-ins
    a wave of student sit-ins and protests that flash like fire across the South.

  • Birmingham

    Birmingham
    A movement organized in early 1963 by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama.

  • March on Washington

    March on Washington
    It was designed to pressure the U.S. government into desegregating the armed forces and providing fair working opportunities for African Americans.

  • Medger Ever & voting and Missisipi.

    Medger Ever & voting and Missisipi.
    Civil rights activist Medgar Evers was born on July 2, 1925, in Decatur, Mississippi. In 1954, he became the first state field secretary of the NAACP in Mississippi.

  • Selma

    On 25 March 1965, Martin Luther King led thousands of nonviolent demonstrators to the steps of the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, after a 5-day, 54-mile march from Selma, Alabama, where local African Americans