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Murder of Emmett Til
He was brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman. -
Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letters from a Birmingham Jail”
Martin Luther King Jr.'s “Letter From a Birmingham Jail.” Written as a response to local clergy's “call for unity” during the protests of 1963, the letter's defense of nonviolent resistance and its insistence on justice for all have made it a foundational text of both the civil rights movement and history classrooms. -
Assassination of Medgar Wiley Evers
Medgar Wiley Evers was an American civil rights activist in Mississippi, the state's field secretary for the NAACP, and a World War II veteran who had served in the United States Army. -
Assassination of Malcolm X
El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, better known as Malcolm X, was an American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement. He is best known for his staunch and controversial black racial advocacy, and for his time spent as the vocal spokesperson of the Nation of Islam. -
Assassination of MLK
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Christian minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the Civil Rights Movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.
