Emmitt Till Murder and Civil Rights Movement
Story of the 1955 murder of Emmitt Till, a black teenager from Chicago, in Mississippi and how that event helped to spark the Civil Rights movement in America. Discusses discrimination and violence faced by African-Americans, the activism of movement leaders such as Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr., freedom rides, the 1963 March on Washington, and the signing of the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act by President Lyndon Baines Johnson. The case of Emmitt Till remains a pointed symbol of racial injustice in America and of the struggle and sacrifice of African-Americans to combat that injustice.
