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Emmett Louis
Best know for his death due to him being killied because he was talking to a white women. His death help the emerging civil rights movement. -
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Cicil Rights Timeline
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Eisenhower
Sent troops to little rock to enforce school desegregation. He was a supporter of the civil rights movement -
Mack Parker
He was taken out of jailed just to be lynched. This is so important because so many Afircan Americans have been accused for something that they did not do. -
Freedom Riders
A KKK mob attack them while they was on a bus. They burned the bus. This is important because it shows how Afircan Americans were treated why they tried to voice their opinions. -
William Moore
He died after getting shot in the head twice while on a march that was against segregation. This is important because a white man was killed because he was supporting African Americans. -
Birmingham
Children were attack by dogs and fire hoses because of the police. This was important because protesters trying to enter the church were African Americans. -
Medgar Evers
This civil rights leader was assassinated. This is important because he tried to help African Americans by going to schools and tried to get blacks in and getting them the right to vote -
Schoolgirls
Four school girls, were african americans, died in a bombing of a church. This is important because this was a act of racially motivated terrorism. -
Civil Rights Workers Killed
Three civil rights members were beaten, shot, and buried by members of the KKK. This is important to African Americans because outrage at the murders aided passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and 1965 Voting Rights Act. -
Jimmie Jackson
Jackson was killed by a state trooper. His death inspired the Montgomery marches, apart of the American Civil Rights movement. -
Dr. King Dies
Martin Luther King Jr. Dies. This is important because he was a civil rights leader who help African Americans has the rights that they now have today.
