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Emmett Till Murder
Description: Emmtt till was murdered just for speaking to a white woman. How this event is impacted to african americans that the new media saw how they white people killld a little boy for somthing not even all that deep. -
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Violence And The Civil Rights Movement
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Little Rock Nine
Description: President Eisenhower Orders Federal Troops to enforce school desegration of a hish school for the little rock nine. How this is important to african americans this is very important to us.Becuase this is what helped us get a good eduction. -
Mack Charles Parker Taken To Jail
Description: Mark was accused of raping a white woman. When he was arrested, a Mississippi state trooper offered the woman's husband a pistol to shoot Parker. How this is important to african americans is that this showed how mean white people trated black people. Also this showed how the cops was wrong. -
Freedom Riders
Description: Freedom Riders was blacks and whites that traveled by a greyhond bus to confront segregation in the South. How this is important to african americans is becuase people was fighting for desegregation in the South becuase it was big back then. And plus so blacks could do everything just like the white people do. -
William Lewis Moore Killed During One Man March
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William Lewis Moore was murdered on his final protest. he was shoot down and killed. How this is important to african americans is becuase one of are helpers was killed. he played a vatil part in the Civil Right s Movement -
Dogs And Fire Hoses
Description: Children was being blasted by high-pressure fire hoses.And clubbed by police officers and they got attacked by police dogs. Tis was all caught on appeared on television and in newspapers. How this is important to african americans is a MAJOR in are history why is because they really took a diggtiyt away from us. -
Medgar Evans Killed
Description: In the driveway outside his home in Jackson Mississippi a great African American civil rights leader Medgar Evers is shot to death. Hw was shoot by a white supremacist by the name of Byron De La Beckwith. How this is important to african americans is that this shows howmuch people really didn't care what they did to african americans. -
Church Bombing
Description: On Sunday morning of September 15, 1963 the Ku Klux Klan bombed the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama it killed four girls that was simply in sunday school. How this is important to african americans is that this showed how they KKD didn't care how old you was if they wanted to kill a African American. -
Civil Rights Workers Killed
Description: These men had been working on registering black voters in Mississippi during Freedom Summer and had and they gone to investigate the burning of a black church. They were arrested by the police on trumped-up charges imprisoned for several hours, and then released after dark into the hands of the Ku Klux Klan who killed them. How this is important to african americans is that this shows you how mean people was and this was very important. -
Jimmie L. Jackson Civil Rights Killed
Description:Jimmie was 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 is veyimportat why is becuse a young man was killed for a sincely thing for just trying to help save a love ones life. -
Dr. Martin Luther King Assassinated
Description: Dr.King was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee on the eveing of his speaking event he was walking out of his room and he was shoot and killed right their on the spot. How this is important to african americans is
