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Brown vs. Board of Education
Supreme Court case that made segregation illegal in public schools. It reversed the 1896 Plessy decision overturning "separate but equal". -
Emmett Till Murder
14 year old African American boy from Chicago in Money, Mississippi. He spoke "fresh" to a white woman in a store. The woman's husband Roy Bryant and brother-in-law murdered Till and dumped his body in the Tallahatchie River. Till's mother insisted on an open-casket funeral. She said she wanted the world to see what they had one to her boyl