Question

Which statement best describes how the background on Emmett Till’s life help us understand the impact of his murder?

A. Because he was an independent boy, he didn’t care to listen to his mother’s warnings about how to act in the South.
B. Because he had never been to the South before, he did not believe his uncle’s stories about the racial practices in Mississippi.
C. Because he grew up in Chicago, he never experienced racism and, as far as he was concerned, he saw himself as being equal to white people.
D. Because of his upbringing, he did not act how white Southerners expected blacks to act, so his murderers singled him out as a sign of unwanted racial progress.

Answer 1

The answer is option D "Because of his upbringing, he did not act how white Southerners expected blacks to act, so his murderers singled him out as a sign of unwanted racial progress."

Step-by-step explanation:

Emmett Till, a 14 year old African-American kid, was killed in August 1955 of every a bigoted assault that stunned the country and gave an impetus to the arising civil rights movement. A Chicago local, Till was seeing family members in Cash, Mississippi, when he was blamed for badgering a neighborhood white lady. A few days after the fact, family members of the lady kidnapped Till, ruthlessly beating and killing him prior to discarding his body in a close by waterway.

Till's crushed mother demanded a public, open-coffin burial service for her child to reveal insight into the savagery exacted on blacks in the South. Till's killers were vindicated, yet his demise electrifies civil rights movement across the country.