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Southern Christian leadership conference
The SCLC was an organization linked to the black churches 60 black ministers were pivotal in organizing civil right activism. Martin Luther King Jr was elected President. They focused its non violent strategy on citizenship, schools and efforts toI desegregate individual cities. It played key roles in the March on Washington in 1963 and the Selma Voting Rights Campaign and March to Montgomery in 1965 -
Murder of Emmett Till
Young African American who got accused of flirting/whistling to a white woman named Carolyn Bryant. Her husband, Roy and J.W. Milam kidnapped Emmett Till. They beat and mutilated him before shooting him in the head and sinking his body in the Tallahatchie River. Three days later, Till's mutilated and bloated body was discovered and retrieved from the river. The milam went to court and no one was found guilty for the murder of Emmett Till.