Yesterday, March 6th, we watched a video on the murder of Emmett Till. Emmett was beaten, shot, then drowned, all for whistling at a white woman. The murders were not punished or convicted. This sparked the Civil Rights movement.
Today, March 7th, we learned about the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The African Americans had been forced to sit in the back of the bus, while the whites sat in the front, but they had had enough and boycotted the bus business. It was successful because it hurt the bus business (most of the riders were African American), it was non-violent, and the people were committed to the cause.
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