civil rights movement
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- Slide: 1
- I refused to get out of my seat because I felt discriminated against, even though I was breaking the law.
- This impactful event increased equality in public transportation as a result!
- My actions started the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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- the ongoing racial discrimination and economic inequalities faced by African Americans, as well as the push for more civil rights protections caused us to begin the March on Washington.
- This helped shock and excite public support for civil rights legislation, directly influencing the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
- Slide: 3
- my name is Emmett Till and my death was the result of racial violence in Mississippi in 1955. I was kidnapped, tortured, and murdered by two white men, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, allegedly because I whistled at a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, at a store. My body was found in the Tallahatchie River, and while my killers were acquitted at trial, the case brought national attention to racial injustice and fueled the civil rights movement.
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