literature lesson 1
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Welcome to Literature Class!
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Timeline19541955
1957
1960
1962
Brown v. Board of EducationEmmett Till murdered while visiting
Mississippi.Montgomery Bus Boycott begins.Integration of schools in Little
Rock, Arkansas is blocked.Sit-ins begin at Woolworth’s in
Greensboro, North Carolina.James Meredith becomes first black
student to enroll in University of Mississippi. Kennedy sends 5,000 federal troops to quell resulting violence.
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1963April
Martin Luther King is arrested and jailed during anti-segregation protests. He writes his “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.”
For years now I have heard the word "Wait!" It rings in the ear of every Negro with a piercing familiarity. This "wait" has almost always meant "never." We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that justice too long delayed is justice denied.
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1963
May
During protests in Birmingham, Eugene “Bull” Connor orders the use of police dogs and fire hoses.
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1963
June
Medgar Evers, Mississippi’s NAACP field secretary, is murdered outside his home.
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1963
August
Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his “I Have a Dream” speech at The March on Washington.
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1963
September
A bomb explodes at the16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. The explosion kills four young girls. Riots erupt.
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Michigan in the 1960s
American automobile industry was successful, and labor unions were strong.
Berry Gordy founded Motown in 1962.