Emmett+Till+incident

CJD- Emmett Till, a young black boy from Mississippi, played a pivotal role in the start of the Civil Rights Movement. Till’s murder would not have caused such a social stir had it not been brought to the nation’s attention by his mother. The disfigured corpse, which was missing an eye and exhibited effects of being tied to a cotton gin and thrown in a river, horrified thousands of people when it was found and displayed in an open casket wake. The considerable harm inflicted on Emmett Till caused unrest in the local black community. Unfortunately, but unsurprisingly, the brothers who killed Till were not found guilty at the trial. Racism and prejudice allowed the white men to get away with their crime, but their acquittal was the most effective method of angering blacks throughout the nation. The thought that any black person, even a 14 year old boy, was at risk of being murdered for behaving in a way that could cause a white person to be upset, made the black community stand up against inequality. The NAACP received benefits after Till’s death, and was able to grow in size and support. Emmett Till was murdered by the men, according to their confession years later, because he would not submit to them as they beat him. This brought about fervor in African Americans, and impelled the initial success of the Civil Rights movement in the late 1950s. Emmett Till was key in starting the movement, even though he did so unintentionally. His murder made more blacks realize that they had to act in order to gain equality and escape from racial unfairness that had existed since the nation’s inception.