In Class Notes: Flashcards
Lee Harvey Oswald:
Lee Harvey Oswald, a former US Marine, is the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, who was shot and killed in Dallas on November 22, 1963. Oswald himself was fatally shot two days later by Jack Ruby in the Dallas County Jail.
Issac Woodard:
Isaac Woodard, a Black army sergeant returning home to South Carolina after WWII, was brutally beaten and blinded by a police chief in Batesburg, SC, in 1946, an event that sparked outrage and became a catalyst for the civil rights movement, ultimately leading to the desegregation of the military.
Emmett Till:
- In 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till, visiting relatives in Mississippi, was accused of violating the Jim Crow South’s racial code by interacting with a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, at her husband’s grocery store. He was abducted, brutally murdered, and his body was found in the Tallahatchie River.
- The men who murdered him were found not guilty
Medgar Evers:
Medgar Evers, a prominent civil rights activist and the first Mississippi field secretary for the NAACP, was assassinated in 1963, becoming a martyr for the cause, and his murder sparked national outrage and increased support for the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
16th St Church Bombing
- Bombing by the KKK in a Baptist Church in Birmingham that killed 4 young African American girls
Black Panthers:
The Black Panther Party, founded in 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, was a revolutionary organization rooted in Black nationalism and armed self-defense, initially focused on combating police brutality in Oakland, California, and later expanding to social programs and political activism.
