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Emmett Till (Murder)
Emmett Till was a little boy about 13 or 14 and he was kill because of a joke he did, he said something like "bye baby". Then he got killed by the lady's husband. This is important to African Americans in many ways like thats just a little boy and they beat him and torchered him in many ways then shot him in the head and messed his face. -
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One Thing To Another
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Little Rock 9 (9 Blacks Going To Trying White School)
The Little rock 9 was when some black kids was trying to go to school but it was a whitee school so they was called names and things were throughing at them and they were spit on too. Then the President sent troops to stop them form going to the school then they got protected a little later when it got crazy. this is important to African Americans because they are teenagers trying to go to school and learn like everybody else and people saying they can't go to that school because they black. -
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One Ends Another Starts
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Mack Charles Case (Will It Come Or Not)
The way this event goes is wired because there was a man named Mack Charles Paker and he rapes a white woman but she was pregant and she was with her kid and just kidnapped her and raped her. Then when he was in jail he was took out of his ceil and killed for it. This is imporant to African Americans because he raped a girl thats was wrong but the people that killed him went to jail and then got out in few days or so but that was wrong to that tell dont do nothing dumb or stupid. -
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Why, Just, Why?? Why The Violence??
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Freedom Riders (Bus Desegregtion laws)
The Freedom Riders were when Rosa Pakes fought for the blacks on the bus. The Freedom Riders were the people that protested on the bus and then the cross the line and whites flated their tires and set the bus on fire with they on their. This is important to African Americans because they fought for the fact that blcaks can sit anywere on the bus and nearly died for that. -
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Bad Thing To Another
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William Lewis Moore (Against Segregation)
William was Against Segregation. He was protesting for it to stop then on his last protest he was killed. This is important to Afircan Americans because this show that there are some whites that are against Segregation like blacks. -
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4 in 1 (4 Months in 1 Year Bad Things To Blacks)
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Police In Birmingham Attack Childern
The cops i Birmingham attcak the kids that were marching. the cops does it to try to stop it but the kids just keep trying to march. This is important to Arifcan Americans because they marched for freedom and to get schools together. -
Medgar Evers (Killed)
Madgar was killed in front of his own house in his owh driveway. He was getting out his car and going into his own home and got shoot because he was a fighter for getting the Jim Crow Law out of the area.It is important to the African Americans because he was in the NAACP and they help the blacks with a lot. -
SchoolGirls Going To Church (Killed)
Four little Schoolgirls were killed by just going to church doing know but going to church. The little girls were in church going down the stairs of the church and then a bomb goes off the all die body in parts. This is important to Afircan Americans because it was a church with more blcaks show that at that time no matter what you doing, at, or just walking if you were black something bad was going to happen to you. -
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2 Years 2 Churches
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3 Men Died For Trying To Save There Church
The men that were killed were named Jmaes Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerne. They were killed by the KKK, KKK beat them and then killed them. the cops lock the 3 men that got killed by the KKK the let them out After dark and then thats how the KKK got to them. this is Important to African Americans because at that time when the KKK was big there were cops and lawyers and Etc. in the clan so it was hard to turst they so they were on their own at that time. -
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A Kill Form The KKK Leads To The State Trooper Killing Case
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Jimmie Lee Jackson a Protestor (Killed By State Trooper)
Jimmie was a civil rights protestor but his was killed but the state trooper in Alabama and he didnt even have a weapon on him i think that the trooper killed him for the fact that he was fighting for civil rights and the was black.That why it is important to African Americans because he was fighting for civil right and he had no weapon on him and he still got killed for a protest. WOW. -
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6 Killings Leads To A very Large Killing Report (Dr. King Jr.)
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Died)
Martin Luther King Jr. the man that help blacks be able to know that they for something. He hlep them know that they havedreams that can be true so dont give up. Then people kill him in the middle of his talk (disrespect).This is very important to African Americans because they looked up to him and looked for him to make a change like he did.
