Emmitt Till

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Emmitt Till

• An African American teen from Chicago is visiting
  relatives in Mississippi when he makes a fatal
  mistake. By whistling at a white woman in a
  grocery store, Emmett Till breaks the unwritten
  laws of the Jim Crow South. Three days later, two
  white men drag him from his bed and brutally
  murder him.
• In Chicago, Till's mother makes the fateful
  decision to let the world see what has happened
  to her son, and has an open-casket funeral.
  Thousands witness the brutality the boy suffered,
  and photos are published and disseminated
  nationwide in Jet magazine. Despite national
  outrage and the testimony of eyewitnesses,
  Mississippi finds the two accused killers not
  guilty at trial.
• A short time later, safe from being tried twice
  for the same crime, the men admit their guilt and
  describe details of the lynching in Look
  magazine. Till's death and his killers' acquittal
  help ignite the civil rights movement.

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The Segregation System(pages 696698)
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The Segregation System(pages 696698)

• Plessy v. Ferguson legalizes segregation.
• World War II inspires African Americans to fight
  for their rights.

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Challenging Segregation in Court (page 698)
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Challenging Segregation in Court (page 698)

• The NAACP exposes the unequal state of
  educational funding under segregation in order to
  challenge the Supreme Court ruling in Plessy v.
  Ferguson.
• The Brown decision overturns separate but equal
  and signals the end of legal segregation.

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Reaction to the Brown Decision(pages 699701)
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Reaction to the Brown Decision(pages
699701)Where did African Americans fight racial
segregation?

• Some state and local governments refuse to follow
  the Brown decision.
• In 1955 the Supreme Court orders district courts
  to enforce the ruling.
• Resistance to desegregation in Little Rock,
  Arkansas leads President Eisenhower to send in
  federal troops.

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The Montgomery Bus Boycott
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott

• African Americans in Montgomery, Alabama organize
  a boycott to protest discrimination on city
  buses.
• The boycott thrusts Martin Luther King Jr. into
  the national spotlight.
• Responding to a lawsuit filed by the boycotters,
  the Supreme Court outlaws segregated buses.

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Dr. King and the SCLC(pages 701703)Where did
King get his ideas?
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Dr. King and the SCLC(pages 701703)Where did
King get his ideas?

• Martin Luther King Jr. seeks to promote civil
  rights through nonviolent resistance.
• King draws his ideas from the teachings of
  Thoreau, Gandhi, Jesus and A. Philip Randolph.
• Young activists, impatient with the slow pace of
  change, organize the Student Nonviolent
  Coordinating Committee and vow to challenge the
  system.

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The Movement Spreads
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The Movement Spreads

• Members of SNCC build on methods of protest used
  earlier by the Congress of Racial Equality
  (CORE).
• Sit-ins attract national media attention to the
  civil rights movement.

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