Civil Rights in America
George Laws Professor:D.Sharnak
Final Essay:Civil Rights in America History:early and later
The early years of the Civil rights movement. Their was so many activist who stood up for civilrights. Martin Luther King, Emmitt Till, Malcolm x, The Black Panther Party. These are just a few of the civil rights political people who took a stand against oppression, segregation and un lawful conduct against black in America in 1940-1960’s
Emmet Till was a young man 14 yr’s old ,who was stocky and big for his age .Till was from Chicago Illinois United State. Emmet Till went to Mississippi to visit his relatives there. But once there he made some friends. One summer morning they all went to town to the neighborhood grocery store of the delta region. The lady of the store said that Emmet Till whistled at her and she asked him to leave. This lady Mrs Bryant (Carolyn Bryant) the wife of the owner of the store .Went outside to get her gun from her car, she was afraid of the boy .After Till and friends left the area, the lady husband (Roy Bryant) came back from shopping for the store. Mrs Bryant told her husband that this black man who was from another city tried to talk to her and she was afraid for her life. None of this is true. So Roy Bryant and brother in law and some other white man 4or5 went to were Emmet Till was staying in Mississippi to get the truth out of him. They went to Wright house were Till was staying Wright is Emmet uncle, the uncle lived there with his family. They asked Wright if a man was from out of town stayed there, who came to his store today.Wright said yes, but the boy is only 14tr;s old. Bryant and his brother in law and 4 or 5 men took till from the house. Emmet Till was beaten, pistol whipped ,cut with a knife ,this went on for hour’s. Then they put a 70 pound cotton gin fan around his neck and tied it around twice with barbed wire. Three days later Till body was discovered and retrieved from the Tallahatchie River. Bryant said that he didn’t do that to the boy. Bryant let the boy go he said. Till was not in good condition when they found him in the river. His body was un recognizable. That is a Civil Rights matter that the government just didn’t think or suspect it was a big enough for them to see or investigate what really happened in Mississippi in 1955 to Emmet Till.
Martin Luther King was a preacher who went to Alabama on the civil rights movement to stop , the Alabama bus company from segegration of blacks on the bus line. Rosa Parks was the young lady who set down on the bus in the white section of the bus and wouldn’t give her seat to a white customer. Martin Luther King started a boycott of the bus company. It take about 9 to 12 months for this to happened. The supreme court statement that segegration on the bus line of Alabama was unlawful and no good. So Martin Luther king boycott won over with the Alabama bus company.