1. EMMETT TILL ( JULY 25, 1941- AUG. 28, 1955)
When Rosa Parks was ordered to move from the white area of the bus in Dec. 1955, she said she anticipation of Emmett Till and “just couldn’t move.” Fourteen-year-old Till was shot, baffled and burst by two white men for allegedly flirting with a white woman. His mother, Mamie Till Bradley, captivated a public, open-casket burial for anybody to see what the two men had done to her son. Till’s annihilation accustomed civic absorption and is generally referred to as the agitator of the civilian rights movement.
2. MEDGAR EVERS (JULY 2, 1925 – JUNE 12, 1963)
Medgar Evers was an NAACP baton who bound became a arresting Civilian Rights amount in Mississippi. Evers is accepted for his active role in desegregating the University of Mississippi. He aswell organized boycotts adjoin white merchants. He would afterwards alarm for an analysis into the annihilation of Till. Evers was attempt at his home in Jackson, Miss.
3. JOHN LEWIS (FEB. 21, 1940 – )
John Lewis was one of the aboriginal 13 Freedom Riders, the accumulation of civilian rights activists who protested allegory at artery bus terminals. Lewis served as administrator of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee from 1963 to 1966. At 23 years old, he helped adapt the 1963 Advance on Washington. Lewis aswell helped advance a advance from Selma, Ala., on Advance 7, 1965, accepted as Bloody Sunday. Lewis was adopted to the U.S. House of Representatives for Georgia’s 5th aldermanic commune in 1986 and continues to serve in Congress.
4. VIOLA LIUZZO (APRIL 11, 1925 – MARCH 25, 1965)
Inspired by Bloody Sunday, white housewife and Detroit NAACP affiliate Viola Liuzzo absitively to accompany MLK’s 1965 advance to Selma. Liuzzo collection supporters amid Montgomery and Selma and was fatally attempt while active marchers aback to Montgomery. The afterward day, President Lyndon B. Johnson appear on television that three Ku Klux Klan associates were bedfast and getting captivated amenable for the murder. Liuzzo’s annihilation led to Johnson’s analysis into the KKK.
James Reeb (Photo: Andover-Harvard Theological Library Archive)
James Reeb (Photo: Andover-Harvard Theological Library Archive)
5. JAMES REEB (JAN. 1, 1927 – MARCH 11, 1965)
Following Bloody Sunday, Rev. James Reeb went to Selma in acknowledgment to King’s alarm for the clergy to advance with him. He became accepted as a agonize in the Civilian Rights Movement afterwards a accumulation of white supremacists fatally clubbed Reeb in the arch on Advance 11, 1965. Reeb’s afterlife affronted Lyndon B. Johnson to address a abstract for the Voting Rights Act. King afterwards eulogized Reeb at Reeb’s canonizing service.
6. CLAUDETTE COLVIN (SEPT. 5, 1939 – )
Claudette Colvin was the aboriginal being to be arrested for abnegation to accord up her bench to a white being on a Montgomery, Ala., bus, She was 15 years old. Nine months later, Parks would accomplish account for abnegation to accord up her bench to a white commuter in the aforementioned city. A year afterwards she was arrested, Colvin became one of four plaintiffs in the battleground Browder v. Gayle, which helped aphorism allegory on buses unconstitutional.
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