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The murder of Emmet Till on August 28,1955

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The murder of Emmet Till on August 28,1955

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Emmet Till was a young boy from Chicago who went to visit his family in  Mississippi when he was accused of harassing a local white woman which was a lie because he only whistled at her. Several days later, her husband and brother-in-law abducted Emmet, brutally beating and killing him to the point where his face was not recognizable before disposing of his body in a nearby river. The only reason why Emmett was recognized was because of his father's ring he wore as a necklace. Emmet's devastated mother instead went to an open casket funeral to show the world the violence inflicted on Black people in the South.

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Emmet Till went to visit his family in the summer of 1955 and have a good summer with his relatives insisted he was murdered on August 28 because he apparently looked at a  white woman a wrong way. Emmet was a 14-year-old boy. who lived in Chicago he was born on July 25, 1941, he was the only child of Louis and Mamie Till. Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam In an all-white jury were named not guilty, they lived their whole lives without beginning punished for their crimes and they even bragged about killing him.

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Emmet's murder was a spark for the upsurge of activism and resistance that became known as the Civil Rights movement. The sight of his beaten body pushed many who had been staying on the sidelines to fight for the right they were given yet take away for them.

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On May 4, 1961, a group of activists called Freedom Riders started a series of bus sit in the south to protest segregation. The group's main goal was to stop segregation which is also the reason why the activists united together

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The Freedom Riders' main goal was to stop segregation with non-violent protest. The activist traveled through the south doing many protests to stop segregation, but the people of the south did not like that one bit they would call police officers on them or act violently toward them. The first encounter of violence the freedom riders experience was when an African American seminary student and member of the SNCC, a white Freedom Rider, and World War 2 veteran Albert Bigelow and another Black rider were attacked as they attempted to enter a whites-only waiting area, in Rock Hill, South Carolina. The freedom riders have faced a lot of violence towards them obesity those incounters were bad but not as bad as the time the southern people set their bus on fire.

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After about 3 years of the freedom rider's actions, it led the U.S. Supreme Court to banned segregation in interstate bus travel and in publice places in 1964.

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16th Street Baptist Church bombing on September 15, 1963

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16th Street Baptist Church bombing on September 15, 1963

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On September 15, 1963, a church full of people was bombed by white supremacist terrorists killing four young girls named Addie Mae Collins, Carol Denise McNair, Carole Rosamond Robertson, and Cynthia Dionne Wesley, and injuring about 20 civilians. It was very clear that this was an act of racial hatred, the church was also a meeting spot for civil rights activists and had a lot of bomb threats from the KKK.

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The church on 16 street hosted several civil rights activist meetings during those meetings and during normal church service hours they would get calls from the KKK threatening them with bombs. The four young girls that passed away during the explosion were named  Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, and Carole Robertson, all age 14, and Denise McNair age 11, there was also a fifth girl, she was the younger sister of Addie Collins and lost her right eye. Unforenty justice was not served until May 16, 2000, when both men were arrested and were charged with four counts of first-degree murder, and four counts of universal malice.
Birmingham was a major site of protests, marches, and sit-ins that were often met with police brutality and violence from white citizens who created homemade bombs and planted them in homes and churches became so commonplace that the city was sometimes known as “Bombingham.”

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The unfortunate event of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing helped build increased support for the struggle to end segregation. Support that would help lead to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The bombing’s impact was exactly the opposite of what its perpetrators had intended it to be.