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Emmett Louis Till
Emmett was a 14 yearold boy who was killed for whistling at a white woman. His death made people want fight for rights and justice. -
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Little Rock Nine
African american students fighting to attend cental high school. This story helped african americans with standing up for there schooling rights. -
Mack Charles Parker
He was taken from jail and lynched -
Freedom Riders
Blacks and whites that traveled by a greyhond bus to confront segregation in the South and they had certin states they had to hit. Important to african americans is becuase people was fighting for desegregation in the South. -
William Lewis Moore
After attempting to hold a one man march for Civil rights William Moore was murdered in Miss. This is important because, it shows that a white person can care about civil rights too. -
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
Civil Rights leader murdered in Mississippi. He was a leader for African American and he did everything he could for them. -
16th St, Baptist Church bombing
Black girls killed in the bombing, Suffring for african amercains died for the color of were skin. -
James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner
These men were killed by the KKK -
Jimmie L. Jackson Civil Rights Leader Killed
Killed for trying to protect his mother and his grandmother who was being beatn by they law enforcement. How this is important to african americans becuse a young man was killed for a sincely thing. -
Assassination of MLK
Murdered. Important to blacks, and America as a whole, becasue people all over the country, people rioted, and protested. America was sort of changed.
