-Motivating factor that mobilised the wills of Americans for the civil rights movement-

<aside> 🔑 14 Year old Boy who was lunched in Mississippi in August 1955 as a result of in inappropriate interaction with the wife of a store owner.

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→ 4 days later, two white men can to Till's uncles house and kidnapped him, violently beat him, shot him in the head and then dumped his body in the river.

• Till may have inadvertently broke the unwritten social codes of black males not speaking to white women.

Funeral

His mother insisted an open-casket funeral so that the world could see what happened to her son. The powerful image of Till's body shocked America and forced the nation to come to face with the violence that African Americans faced.

• The men who kidnapped him, despite being identified, were found not guilty by an 'all white court'. → these men would later confess to the crime later.

Bob Dylan wrote the song 'the death of Emmet till' in 1962 and this incident would go onto inspire Rosa parks at the Montgomery Bus boycotts.