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Emmett Till
Emmett Till was a fourteen year old boy who was brutally murdered in Money , Mississippi for allegedly flirting with a white women four days earlier .The Emmett Till case was a spark for a new generation to commit their lives to social change, you know.
They said, We’re not gonna die like this. Instead, we’re gonna live and transform the South so people won’t
have to die like this. And if anything, if any event of the 1950s inspired young people to be committed to that
kind of change, it was the -
Birmingham Church bombing
On September 15, a bomb exploded before Sunday morning services at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama–a church with a predominantly black congregation that served as a meeting place for civil rights leaders. Four young girls were killed and many other people injured; outrage over the incident and the violent clash between protesters and police that followed helped draw national attention to the hard-fought, often dangerous struggle for civil rights for African Americans. -
Civil Rights Act
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is the nation's premier civil rights legislation. The Act outlawed discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, required equal access to public places and employment, and enforced desegregation of schools and the right to vote. It did not end discrimination, but it did open the door to further progress. -
Same Sex marrige in Massachusetts
Same-sex marriages began in Massachusetts on May 17, 2004, as a result of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) ruling in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health that it was unconstitutional under the In the last decade since the Massachusetts Supreme Court declared a gay marriage ban unconstitutional on Nov. 18, 2003, marriage equality has made significant gains with public opinion and within state legislatures. Now 14 other states and the District of Columbia allow same-sex marriage.
