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The murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till in August 1955 in Money, Mississippi, was a brutal lynching that became a catalyst for the American civil rights movement. After allegedly flirting with a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, Till was kidnapped, tortured, and shot by Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, who were acquitted by an all-white jury despite strong evidence. -
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus, sparking a 381-day boycott of the city's segregated bus system -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483, is a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court which ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools violate the Equal Protection Clause
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