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Emmett Till
Emmett was killed of hate crime for playing around with a white women. This raised awareness of white on black hatred crimes. -
President Eisenhower
President enforces troops with schools desegregation, Little Rock 9. It help schools be intergated. -
Mack Charles Parker
Mack was lynched after tooken out of jail . It impacted African American lives that the KKK wasn't playing. -
Freedom Writers.
The freedom riders were blacks and whites that rode on Greyhound to all of the Southern states. Inspired people to intergrade. -
William Louis Moore
During the one-man march he was slain. It took the effect of African Americans to fight against segregation. -
Birmingham Incident
Police attacked school children and adults on the march with fire hoses. The affacted that it had on African Americans was that the government wasn't going up. -
Medgar Evans
Was the coordinator for the NAACP and others. Got killed when he was going into his house by KKK member.The reaction was it made African Americans go harder than even , it didn't stop them. -
KKK Attach On Church
The KKK bombed the church with 4 young girls in there, they all died, they were innocent. It was important to African Americans because it was for no reason. -
Slain By Klan
Civil Rights workers were tooken by the KKK and killed. It was important to African Americans because it showed that it was time for the KKK to go. -
Jimmie Lee Jackson
Jimmie was a Civil Rights protestor, who got shot by a trooper. He wasn't armed. His death inspired the Selma to Montgomery marches, -
Assassination of MLK Jr.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood up for equal rights and civil rights. He was assassinated April 4. He was very important to African American because he guided us to where we are today.
