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The End Of The Movement?

The End Of The Movement?. 6/12/63: NAACP Activist Medgar Evers Assassinated in Mississippi. His killer is not convicted until 1994. 9/15/63: 4 Little Girls Murdered In Birmingham Church Bombing. The bomber was acquitted and went free. He was retried and finally convicted in 1977.

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The End Of The Movement?

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  1. The End Of The Movement?

  2. 6/12/63: NAACP Activist Medgar Evers Assassinated in Mississippi • His killer is not convicted until 1994.

  3. 9/15/63: 4 Little Girls Murdered In Birmingham Church Bombing • The bomber was acquitted and went free. • He was retried and finally convicted in 1977.

  4. 6/21/64: 3 Civil Rights Workers Ambushed And Murdered By KKK • The state of Mississippi refuses to prosecute the killers. • In 2004, 3 Stevenson students complete a History Fair project that leads to the conviction of one of the murderers.

  5. 2/21/65: Malcolm X Assassinated

  6. 8/11/65: Race Riots In Watts

  7. 1/10/66: NAACP Voting Rights Activist Vernon Dahmer Murdered By KKK • The KKK Imperial Wizard who ordered the killing is not convicted until 1998.

  8. 6/16/66: Stokely Carmichael First Uses Phrase “Black Power”

  9. 10/15/66: Black Panther Party Formed

  10. 6/67: SNCC Changes Its Name To “Student National Coordinating Committee”

  11. 4/4/68: Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated In Memphis

  12. Race Riots In Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, Newark And Other Cities

  13. 6/5/68: Robert Kennedy Assassinated In Los Angeles

  14. 1970s: Forced Busing Is Rejected In The North

  15. Did The Movement Win? Did it end?

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