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TIMELINE, Civil War - Coggle Diagram

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        Bloody Sunday
        
        Civil Rights Leader Assasinated
        
        Million Man March
        
        First African American President
        
        Black Lives Matter
        
        Black Lives Matter is a movement to bring justice and freedom to the black community.
        
        Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States and the first African American president
        
        Million Man March, a political demonstration in Washington, D.C. on Oct. 16, 1995, to promote African American unity and family values. Estimates of the number of marchers, most of whom were African American men, ranged from 400,000 to nearly 1.1 million, ranking it among the largest gatherings of its kind in American history.
        
        On April 4, 1968, civil rights leader and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on his hotel room’s balcony. Emotionally-charged looting and riots followed.
        
        On March 7, 1965, the civil rights movement in Alabama took an especially violent turn as 600 peaceful demonstrators participated in the Selma to Montgomery march to protest the killing of Black civil rights activist Jimmie Lee Jackson by a white police officer.
      - Martin Luther King organised a march with more than 200,000 people of all races congregated in Washington, D. C. for the peaceful march with the main purpose of forcing civil rights legislation and establishing job equality for everyone.