EMMETT TILL

• EMMETT TILL WAS A 14 YEAR OLD AFRICAN AMERICAN TEEN THAT WAS BRUTALLY BEAT AND KILLED
• AUGUST 28, 1955
• THEY WANTED EQUAL RIGHTS FOR AFRICAN AMARICANS
• MONEY,MISSISSIPPI U.S.
• He was killed for talking to a white woman

Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Name: Martin Luther King, Jr.
• He wanted to have equal rights for blacks in the United States
• August 28, 1963
• Equal rights for blacks
• Washington, D.C.
• August 28, 1963

ROSA PARKS

• Didn't want to give up her seat on the bus
• 1 December 1955
• Black rights
• Montgomery, Alabama

LITTLE ROCK 9

• They were enrolled into an all white school
• September 1957
• Civil rights
• Little Rock, Arkansas

JAMEA CHANEY

• Was one of the 3 civil rights workers assassinated by the kkk
• June 21, 1964
• Civil rights
• Nashoba County, Mississippi.

CIVIL RIGHTS PROJECT

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