Key Individuals of Civil Rights movement

Emmett Till

Emmett Till- 14 yrs old

Open Casket= “let the world see”

Spark That Lights the Fire Death of Emmitt Till: August 1955 – 14 years old – From Chicago – Visiting family in Money Mississippi – Supposedly whistled at the white female store clerk – Taken from home, tortured, beaten and killed – White murderers are found “not guilty”

Remembrance of Emmitt by Langston Hughes Mississippi—1955 (To the Memory of Emmett Till) Oh what sorrow! oh, what pity! Oh, what pain That tears and blood Should mix like rain And terror come again To Mississippi. Come again? Where has terror been? On vacation? Up North? In some other section Of the nation, Lying low, unpublicized? Masked—with only Jaundiced eyes Showing through the mask? Oh, what sorrow, Pity, pain, That tears and blood Should mix like rain In Mississippi! And terror, fetid hot, Yet clammy cold Remain. The Money Mississippi Blues (1955) Lyrics by Langston Hughes; Music by Jobe Huntley I don’t want to go to Money, honey, not Money, Mississippi! no, I wouldn’t go to Money, honey, down in Mississippi. There’s pity, sorrow, and pain in Money, Mississippi. Tears and blood like rain in Money, Mississippi, in Money, Mississippi! His father died for democracy fighting in the army over the sea. His father died for the U. S. A. Why did they treat his son this a- way? in Money, Money, Mississippi, Money, Mississippi. His mother worked to raise her child, dressed him neat, kept him from running wild. She sent him to the country when vacation came, but he never got back to Chicago the same. They sent him back in a wooden box---- from Money, Money, Mississippi, Money, Mississippi. Like old boy, just fourteen years old, shot, kicked, and beaten ‘cause he was so bold to whistle at a woman who was white. He was throwed in the river in the dead of night In Money, Money, Mississippi, Money, Mississippi. I don’t want to go to Money, honey, not Money, Mississippi. No, I wouldn’t want to go to Money, honey, down in Mississippi. There’s pity, sorrow, and pain in Money, Mississippi! Tears and blood like rain in Money, Mississippi, in Money, Mississippi! No, I wouldn’t want to go— for no kind o’ Money— to Money, Mississippi, not Money, Mississippi! Money, Mississippi!

Time to Challenge the Court NAACP: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People – Main group leading the fight for desegregation Thurgood Marshall: - NAACP attorney - Most well known for key victory in Brown v. Board - 1 st African American Supreme court justice

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