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How do you think the events depicted here affected the civil rights movement

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1.The first event that fueled the civil rights movement was: The murder of African Americans by whites was still common in the 1950s and much of the south the culprits were not punished. But the murder of Emmett Till, a Chicago teenager visiting with his family in Money, Mississippi during the summer of 1955, did not go unnoticed. The age of the victim, the nature of the "crime" —supposedly whistled at a white woman in a store — and her mother's decision to leave the coffin open during the funeral, showing the traces of the beating that the Two white kidnappers before shooting him and throwing his body into the Tallahatchie River on August 28, all contributed to making the case a cause celebré

2.The second event that fueled the civil rights movement was that of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955-1956

On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks (the "mother of the Civil Rights Movement") refused to get up from her seat on a public bus to leave it to a white passenger. Rosa was arrested, prosecuted, and sentenced for disorderly conduct and for violating local law. When the incident first became known to the black community, 50 African American leaders gathered and organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott to protest the segregation of blacks and whites on public buses. The boycott lasted 382 days, until the local black-white segregation law was lifted. This incident is frequently cited as the spark of the Civil Rights Movement

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