What led to the lynching of Emmett Till? What effect did the lynching have on the civil rights movement?
Please provide the best answer for the statement.
Answer:
1. Explain that Emmett Till was a black teenager from Chicago who went to Mississippi to visit relatives and allegedly flirted with a white woman in a grocery store.
2. Note that two white male relatives of the woman killed Emmett Till.
3. Explain that a legal case ensued, after which the two white men were acquitted despite obvious evidence of their guilt before a white jury.
4. Emmett Till’s body was shown publicly in Chicago, where the miscarriage of justice angered the thousands of African-American mourners who paid their respects.
5. Conclude that this murder fed the flames of black discontent and helped steel black people for the necessity of nonviolent protest.
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