civil rights 54-57
Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Movement 1954-57 Brown vs. the Board of Education was the start of integration for schools. The ruling was that the black schools were separate and unequal. When the ruling came out the African Americans were terrified to leave their homes in fear of the increasing violence the southern white citizens were using against them. In the year 1955 there were 500 documented lynches in Mississippi alone. And there were probably more that didn’t get documented. The kkk was used for anti-segregation tactics and burned down black and white peoples homes who were for segregation. Emitt Till was a name that ever African American knew of. Emitt Till was a teenage African American boy from the north. He was visiting family members who lived in the south. Emitt and a few other African American boys were at a local general store. A white girl walked into the store and Emitt
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Approximate Word count = 611
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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