Mississippi was able to prevent blacks from registering through a multitude of institutional blockades; poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses were all (at the time) legal methods by which minorities were kept from participating. ... For example, Emmett Till was murdered in 1955, and his death sparked a period of apathy toward the backwards "justice" system of Mississippi. ...

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The Civil Rights Movement The Civil Rights Movement in the United States was a political, legal, and social struggle by black Americans to gain full citizenship rights and to achieve racial equality. The Civil Rights movement was first and foremost a challenge to segregation. During the Civil...

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