civil rights 54-57
Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Movement 1954-57 Brown vs. the Board of Education was the start of integration for schools. The ruling was that the black schools were separate and unequal. When the ruling came out the African Americans were terrified to leave their homes in fear of the increasing violence the southern white citizens were using against them. In the year 1955 there were 500 documented lynches in Mississippi alone. And there were probably more that didn't get documented. The kkk was used for anti-segregation tactics and burned down black and white peoples homes who were for segregation. Emitt Till was a name that ever African American knew of. Emitt Till was a teenage African American boy from the north. He was visiting family members who lived in the south. Emitt and a few other African American boys were at a local general store. A white girl walked into the store and Emitt
At the end of the school year one of the nine graduated and the other eight for forced to move to other states because of the continued violence and harassment. So in the end the after numerous protests, speeches, sit-ins, demonstrations, and marches African American won the battle of integration. Although integration didn't work out as the African American wanted they continued to fight for equal rights doing it non-violent all the time. When Emitt walked out of the store he said to the white girl "bye baby. Central High School was ordered to integrate and the white community was furious. He went to the media and told the state how bad the conditions were inside the scho!ol to try and stop integration. asked the other boys if he should say something to her. Governor Faubus was getting ready for another election so he needed the anti-segregationist vote to win. And they were right the two men were found innocent of the murder of Emitt Till. During the civil rights movement the key concept was non-violent protest no matter how violent the opposition was. The boys were hesitant but dared him anyway. Moles and the whole African American community knew that a black witness against a white man was no good and wouldn't stand up in court. The soldiers escorted the nine African American students into and around the school until Governor Faubus complained about having soldiers inside the school. The girl's father and his friend went and found Emitt and brutally killed him. He even brought members of the NAACP to court in the local area just so they wouldn't have time to help the students at Central High.
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