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
During the civil rights movement the key concept was non-violent protest no matter how violent the opposition was. They figured if they were violent and fought back the whites who opposed them would just fight and use even more violence to bring them down. So in the end the after numerous protests, speeches, sit-ins, demonstrations, and marches African American won the battle of integration. asked the other boys if he should say something to her. The boys were hesitant but dared him anyway. When Emitt walked out of the store he said to the white girl "bye baby." ol to try and stop integration. He even brought members of the NAACP to court in the local area just so they wouldn't have time to help the students at Central High. The white girl went home and told her father about what happen at the store. The girl's father and his friend went and found Emitt and brutally killed him.
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Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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