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August 28, 1955
Emmett Till was an African-American boy who was murdered in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman. he is important to history cause his brutal murder, the trial of the two men who killed him, and the surrounding publicity helped to start the main part of the Civil Rights Movement. -
September 24,1957
The Little Rock Nine were a group of African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. The Little Rock Crisis the students were prevented from entering the segregated school -
April17, 1959
Mack Charles was an African-American victim of lynching. He was accused of raping a pregnant white woman. He was kidnapped from his jail and lynched. -
May 14, 1961
the Freedom Riders set out for the Deep South but the ran into hatred and violence. -
April 23, 1963
William Lewis was a postal worker and Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). He was murdered on his final protest. He was important to A.A because he marched to a capital to hand-deliver letters he had written denouncing racial segregation. -
May 3, 1963
The police had attacked the kids that was protesting and sent out attack dogs. This was important to A.A because it was a day for people to protest against segration and the police did a horrible thing. -
June 12, 1963
Medgar Evers was an A.A civil rights activist from Mississippi involved in efforts to overturn segregation at the University of Mississippi. He was important to A.A because his death inspired civil rights protests. -
September 15, 1963
The bombing was as an act of racially motivated terrorism. The explosion at the African-American church, which killed four girls, This was important to A.A because it started to integrate public places but not everyone agreed with ending segregation. -
June 21,1964
James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner was lynched by members of the Ku Klux Klan ( KKK ). This was important to A.A because their murders sparked national outrage and a massive federal investigation. -
February 26, 1965
Jimmie Lee Jackson was a civil rights protestor who was shot and killed by Alabama State Trooper James Bonard Fowler in 1965. His death was important to A.A becuase it inspired the Selma to Montgomery marches -
April 4, 1968
Martin Luther King, Jr. was an American clergyman, activist, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. King was assassinated by Loyd Jowers but he said a police officer killed him. King was important to A.A because he helped us get to where we are today as African Amercian's.