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The Murder of Emit Till
On August 28, Emit Till was murdered at the age of 14 for flirting with a white women in mississippi. Emit was with his cousins outside a store and he was bragging about how he has a white girlfriend. Not believing him, they dared Emit to ask out the white women behind the counter in the store on a date. Accepting the challenge, he went into the store and left saying "Bye baby" the women then made false claims to her husband and her husband angry went to Emits home and brutally killed him. -
Murder of Medgar Evers
Medgar Evers was an african american who volunteered in the U.S Army and participated in the Normandy invasion. On June 12, 1963, he was assasinated by a white supremacist , Bryon De La Beckwith. When he was in trial for the case, the jury was all white people and they were having difficulty making a decision, and they let him free. On Feburary, 1994, the case reopened with a racially mixed jury and the cased close with a sentence of life in prison. -
Birmingham Church Bombing
This city was filled with people from the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and they were violent. Many civil rights protest took place at the church the and KKK would constantly call in bomb threats towards the baptist church. In the morning on Sunday before service started, about 200 people were already in the church attending sunday school classes right before service started and thats when th bomb went off. Four young girls dead and more than 20 people injured. -
Don't Ask, Don't Tell
On this day, the "Don;t Ask, Don't Tell" went into effect after president, Bill Cliton made a policy for U.S military leaders to leave the gay and lesbian troops go. He made a comprimise that gay and lesbian people are able to enlist into the army and they can't be kicked out because of their sexual orientation. On Septemer 20, 2011, the policy ended but president Barrock Obama repealed the policy to continue the rights for the gay and lesbian community.
