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Top 5 Ways To Die As An African American During The Civil Rights Movement
According to History.com, “100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, whites would still not respect the blacks and treat them as equals. They still treated them as if they were jail or prison inmates.” They risked and sometimes lost their lives for freedom and/or equality. Why couldn’t America just give it to them? Today we realize it’s wrong, but then, it was what they were used to. I’m just glad now today the United States of America has a variety of cultures, and we all are able to communicate, black or white. These deaths in the past shouldn’t have even happened. These people died for wanting their freedom, and I respect that. Martin Luther King Jr. for example, wouldn’t be as famous if he hadn’t been shot. He was looked at as the face of the Civil Rights Movement, when in reality, he couldn’t have done it without the people behind him.
Shot - Martin Luther King Jr. Died April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee, led major assimilation campaigns, including ones in Montgomery and Birmingham. He won a Nobel peace prize. He was assassinated as he prepared to lead an expression in Memphis.
Martin Luther King Jr. By J Kile February 4th, 2014
Mass Shooting - Samuel Ephesians Hammond Jr. died on February 8, 1968, in Orangeburg, South Carolina. Delano Herman Middleton and Henry Ezekial Smith were also shot by police who shot at the student campuses in South Carolina State College campus.
Samuel Hammond By Find A Grave November 6th, 2003
Beaten - James Reeb died March 11, 1965 in Selma, Alabama. He was a minister from Boston. After the state troopers attacked at the Edmund Pettus Bridge, Reeb was then shortly beaten to his death by white men while he was walking down Selma Street.
Black History Month By Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH) established Negro History Week in 1925.
Drive-By – Lt. Col. Lemuel Penn died on July 11, 1964, in Colbert, Georgia. While he was driving from U.S. Army Reserves training, he was passed by Klansmen shooting to try to kill him.
Lemuel Penn (Duke University School of Law) July 11, 2004
Missing – Henry Hezekiah, Dee & Charles Eddie Moore were killed on May 2, 1964 in Meadville, Mississippi, by Klansmen who thought the two were put on earth for a plot to kill blacks in their area. Their bodies were found finally during a huge search for the lost civil rights workers Chaney, Goodman & Schwerner.
Charles Eddie Moore Elizabeth Newby January 25th, 2007: Henry Hezekiah Dee Elizabeth Newby January 25th, 2007
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