The end of the Civil War, which brought about these Amendments, was the legal end to slavery in the United States, but it would be a long and difficult battle before those rights became a social custom in America. ... Laws, called Black Codes, were imposed to severely restrict the rights of African Americans. ... Whites enjoyed comfortable and clean accommodations, while blacks were not so fortunate. ... Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old boy from Chicago, went to visit his uncle in Mississippi. ... The boy was physically taken from his uncle's home, and three days later his lifeless bo...

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The civil rights movement happened as a result of racial discrimination towards black Americans and it was for black Americans to oppose against it. ... I'm coming out a ma n " this shows for some black American that was in the War, their attitude changed about the racial discrimination as before the War. ... Montgomery bus boycott was important in getting the civil right act passed as not only did it create awareness about racial discrimination towards coloured people. ... That Montgomery bus boy cut was an event that could arguably be the key Turing point in the civil right movement as ...

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