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Emmett Till Murder
On August 28, 1955, fourteen year old Emmett Till was kidnapped and murdered in Money, Mississippi stirring up support for racist reform in the South -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Local authorities in Montgomery, Alabama, arrested Rosa Parks, a black seamstress, when she refused to vacate her seat in the white section of a city bus -
New York School Boycott
In the early 1960's almost half of the students in the city skipped school because they were protesting against school segregation in the system. -
March on Washington
Civil rights leaders held a protest against racial discrimination and to show support for black people. -
Freedom Summer
During the summer of 1964, hundreds of Northern college students traveled to Mississippi to help register black voters and encourage participation in the civil rights movement. -
24th Amendment
This amendment was passed because people were starting to be told that they had to pay a tax for voting. The states of America abolished the poll tax for all elections. -
Watts Riots
These riots were started from a simple roadside argument that turned into a fight -
Selma March
To protest local resistance to black voter registration in Dallas County, Alabama, the southern christian leadership conference organized a mass march from Selma to Montgomery -
Black Panthers
The original focus of the black panther party was to protect all the black neighborhoods from police brutality -
Dr. Kings Assassination
On a April day of 1968, Martin Luther King Jr was shot standing outside on the balcony on the second floor of the motel
