The Civil Rights Movement and the Emmett Till´s Murder Case

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Emmett Till’s murder case started with him playing a simple joke. Emmett’s death showed how little care African Americans were shown at the time. Emmett’s murder really made the civil rights movement come alive. After Emmett’s death a series of things happened remarking the civil rights movement including Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s ‘I have a dream’ speech. The murder case left not only African Americans astonished but even White’s disagreed with the result of the murder trial. Do you think Emmett deserved what happened to him?
African American Emmett Till was at a store buying candy with his 8 cousins when they dared him to ask the white woman behind the counter named Carolyn for a date. Instead he said “bye baby” as he was walking out, although “Carolyn changed her story on several occasions, suggesting at various times that he said, "Bye, baby," made lewd comments or whistled at her as he left the store.” The woman’s husband found out later that night and was quite upset. He went to Emmett’s house and tied Emmett’s family members up and forced Emmett into his truck. Emmett proceeded to get into Mr. Bryant’s truck and that’s when the horror story began.

After Bryant forced Emmett into his truck they drove to an old abandoned shack. They began to beat him by with a pistol. They then tied him up and shot him in the head. As they were beating him up they gouged one of his eyes. Bryant says “We backed out of killing the mother f***er and were going to take him to a hospital but it came clear the injuries were too extensive for till to survive so they decided to put his a** in the Tallahatchie river.” Since he was too far gone they tied him to a 75 pound fan and dumped him i...

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...n, especially after Emmett’s death. "People really didn't know that things this horrible could take place. And the fact that it happened to a child, that make all the difference in the world." That’s when the civil rights movement really began. Nine years later, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, outlawing many forms of racial discrimination and segregation, one year later it passed the Voting Rights Act outlawing discriminatory voting practices.”
After Emmett’s death a series of things happened remarking the civil rights movement including Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s ‘I have a dream’ speech. The murder case left not only African Americans astonished but even White’s disagreed with the result of the murder trial. Emmett Till’s murder was astonishing and really made the civil rights movement come alive.

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