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Emmett Till’s Murder
Emmett Till was a 14-year-old black boy who was lynched in 1955, he was accused of flirting with a white woman, Carolyn Bryant. He was taken by her husband and beaten, and shot in the head before his body was dumped in a River. His mother decided on an open-casket funeral in to show the world the how terrible the violence on her son was. The two killers were convicted and received no punishment. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott began in December 1955, when Rosa Parks, a black woman, was persecuted for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Alabama. After this African American residents made a boycott of the bus system, led by Martin Luther King Jr. This lasted for over a year, Despite facing challenges and violent white people, the boycott led to a Supreme Court ruling that declared segregation on public buses Illegal.