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Emmet Till
Emmit Till was kind of a trouble maker. He got dared to whistle at a white lady. Her husband and Brother in law went after Emmit and tortured and murdered him. They later found him in a river.
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Rosa Parks Bus Boycott.
Rosa Parks decided to sit in the front of the black section on the bus. She was told to move and to give her seat up to a white person, but she refused. She was arrrested for this.
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Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom
A crowd of over thirty thousand nonviolent demonstrators, gathered at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. -
Little Rock Central High School Integration
Governor Orval Faubus mobilized the Arkansas National Guard in an effort to prevent nine African American students from integrating the high school. -
Little Rock Nine
Little Rock Nine is a group of African Americans that got put into an all white school. They were bullied the whole time. Whites tried to stop this from happening, but later on the first black graduated.
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Temple Bombing
Fifty sticks of dynamite exploded in a recessed entranceway at the Hebrew Benevolent Congregation. -
Sit-ins
Tons and Tons of African Americans went to a diner and completed a sit-in. The goal was to stay at a diner and sit up at the whites spots. The police were called, and they started areesting people, but another wave of Blacks would come and take the spots of the people who had gotten arrested. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kzp7GOcIMfI -
Georgia Tech Integration
The school would admit three of thirteen black applicants for admission the following fall. -
Freedom Rides
A group of student activists departed Washington D.C. to test local compliance throughout the Deep South -
NAACP Convention
The city had recently integrated its lunch counters, the majority of public accommodations throughout Atlanta remained segregated and delegates were turned away from several downtown hotels. -
Americuc Movement
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) fieldworkers began organizing with black community leaders in Americus soon after their arrival in Sumter County in February 1963. -
The Birminghal Campaign
This was to try to make racial segregation in public accommodations. Which resulted in outbreaks of mass destruction. Also to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964. -
Medgar Evers & Voting in Mississippi
Evers was a member if the NAACP. Being a member from the NAACP he recieved a lot of threasts. He was shot in the back of his head by Brian Beckwith. -
Washinton March
A ton of people came to see on specific guy at this event. Martin Luther King Junior gave the "I Have A Dream" speech. Which was about jobs and freedom.
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/civil-rights-movement/videos/martin-luther-king-jr-leads-the-march-on-washington -
Selma March
The Selma march was to try to let colored people vote. In the end Congress passed the Voting Rights Act. Which allowed colored people to vote.
