HIST 3304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Emmett Till, Negroid, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
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More than 250,000 people (including 75,000 white river !) Started at washington monument & marched to the president abraham lincoln commemoration in 1963 martin luther king, jr. gave his. Bachelor of arts in nursing the literacy test first mass voting of southern negroid community. An organization founded in 1960 to coordinate and publicize sit-ins. Sclc leader protested and were once again beaten and arrested; another unsuccessful protest. An african-american english teenager who was murdered in 1955 in mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly irting with a white char . Public indignation generated by the case helps branch line the civil rights movements. Historic legislation that prohibited racial segregation in public adjustment and racial favouritism in employment, education, and ballot. 1961 protests by black and white activists who drive bus topology through southern dos to test their compliancy with the ban on segregation on interstate highway buses.
