Before Mrs. Rosa Parks’ Montgomery, Alabama arrest, lynchings, assassinations and legislative tactics set the scene for America’s Civil Rights Era. Why were 4 Mississippi murders by known assailants that occurred the same year her arrest not well known? A 1957 Constitutional Crisis rocked the nation centering around the school segregation issue. Sit-ins, demonstrations, marches and sacrifices created headlines that have left indelible marks on American History. This talk chronicles the major events of the Civil Rights Era (1954 – 1968).