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Emmett Louis Till
He was a boy who got murdered at an young age because he was speaking to a white girl; she went back and told on him. The two white boys fought and killed Emmett Till -
President Eisenhower
He ordered many federal troops to enforce the school desegregation in Little Rock. The federal troops protected the few black kids that went there so they wouldn't get harassed by the whites -
Mack Charles Parker
He was accused of raping a pregnant white woman in northern Pearl River County, Mississippi. Three days before he was to stand trial, he was kidnapped from his jail cell in the Pearl River County Courthouse by a mob, beaten and shot. -
Freedom Riders
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated South -
William Lewis Moore
William was a part of the Congress of Racial Equality; a CORE member who staged lone protests against racial segregation. -
Harsh Brimingham
While people/kids were marching the white police men attack them with fire hoses and dog -
Medgar Evers
was an African-American civil rights activist from Mississippi involved in efforts to overturn segregation. After returning from overseas military service in World War II he became active in the civil rights movement. Later Evers was assassinated by Byron De La Beckwith, a member of the White Citizens' Council. -
Bombingham
4 schoolgirls during the bombing happening in Brimingham died in a church bomb. Some members of the KKK planted a bomb in the church basement and the 4 girls ran in the basement to get their stuff and the bomb went off and killed the girls. -
Civil Rights Workers
James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael "Mickey" Schwerner, The three had been working on the "Freedom Summer" campaign, attempting to register African Americans to vote. They were lynched on the night of June by members of the Mississippi White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. -
Jimmie Lee Jackson
was a civil rights protestor who was shot and killed by Alabama State Trooper James Bonard Fowler. His death inspired the Selma to Montgomery marches. -
Dr. Martin Luther King
He was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968, at the age of 39. King was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 7:05PM that evening.
