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Civil Rights Movement 1954-1968

  • Emmit Till

    Emmit Till
    ! 4-year-old African American boy from Chicago staying with family in Money Mississippi. Till whistled at white women and talked "fresh to the women). The woman's husband Roy Bryant and JW William murdered Till and threw his body in the Tallahatchie River. His mother insisted on an open-casket funeral. She said she wanted the world to know what she did to her boy.
  • Brown Vs board of education of Topeka Kansas

    Brown Vs board of education of Topeka Kansas
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    Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was a landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional.