Emmett+Till


 * Emmett Till**

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 * 14 year old African American boy.
 * Visting his grandparents with his cousin.
 * Went to Brant's Grocery and Meat Market.
 * He said " Hey baby" to a white girl.
 * Two guys went to the house and took him into a truck.
 * Beat him up.
 * Made him carry a fan to the river.
 * Then they shot him in the head.
 * They took out his eye and his forehead got crushed on one side.

This is impotant because it made people realize how blacks were getting mistreated.

This helped start the Civil Right's Movement because his mom tried to put a stop to the bad ways African Americans were getting treated.



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Mom wanted a public open casket to show the world what happened to her son.

Bibliography

Juan Williams.__Eyes On The Prize__.Washington, D.C.:Penguin Group,1987.Print.

Henry Hampton and Steve Fayer.__Voices of Freedom.__United States and Canada:1990.Print.

“Killers Confession” American Experience. WGBH Educational Foundation. 2009. January 9th, 2012. 