The United States had embraced a "separate but equal" attitude toward black and white education. ... One the most gruesome events that headed the Civil Rights Movement was the vicious murder of a young African American boy named Emmett Till. In August of1955, a fourteen year old, African American boy went to visit his relatives in the town of Money, Mississippi. ... A few days later, two men came to the cabin of Mose Wright, Emmett's uncle whom he had been staying with, in the middle of the night. ... Mose Wright could only positively identify the body was Emmett's because it had bee...

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