PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1950S
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____ a massive bombing at a church during Sunday School.
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____ the day civil rights protest marchers were beaten by state troopers.
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____ a segregation rally that became violent.
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____ an attack on the Little Rock Nine.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Bloody Sunday, Russian Krovavoye Voskresenye, (January 9 [January 22, New Style], 1905), massacre in St. Petersburg, Russia, of peaceful demonstrators marking the beginning of the violent phase of the Russian Revolution of 1905.
Detailed explanation-2: -Bloody Sunday was a massacre that took place on 22ndJanuary 1905 in St Petersburg, wherein over 100 workers were killed and about 300 wounded when they took out a procession to present an appeal to Tsar. It was named as Bloody Sunday since it took place on Sunday.
Detailed explanation-3: -This demonstration of factory workers was brutally put down by Russian soldiers. Up to 200 people were killed by rifle fire and Cossack charges. This event became known as Bloody Sunday and is seen as one of the key causes of the 1905 Revolution.
Detailed explanation-4: -On January 22, 1905, a group of workers led by the radical priest Georgy Apollonovich Gapon marched to the czar’s Winter Palace in St. Petersburg to make their demands. Imperial forces opened fire on the demonstrators, killing and wounding hundreds.