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Emmett Till S01 E34

12 min 2 (Series)

In 1955, a 14 year old boy named Emmett Till was brutally murdered in Money, Mississippi. The white men who murdered him killed him for being Black. Emmett Till's mother chose to have an open casket funeral, and show the world what had been done to her son. Despite the killers being acquitted in court, the story of Emmett Till and the jarring images of his funeral shocked the nation and were a vital catalyst in turning the civil rights movement into a nationwide phenomenon.

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The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
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Slavery in the American Colonies
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Elizabeth Key
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Slave Codes
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The Germantown Petition Against Slavery
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The Stono Rebellion
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Phillis Wheatley
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The American Revolution
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The US Constitution, 3/5, and the Fugitive Slave Clause
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The Fugitive Slave Act of 1793
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Women's Experience Under Slavery
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The Louisiana Rebellion of 1811
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The Rise of Cotton
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Maria Stewart
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The Underground Railroad
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The Dred Scott Decision
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Frederick Douglass
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Black Americans in the Civil War
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Reconstruction
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Ida B. Wells
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Plessy v Ferguson and Segregation
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Booker T. Washington and W.E.B DuBois
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The Black Women's Club Movement
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The Great Migration
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The Red Summer of 1919
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott
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Martin Luther King, Jr
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Student Civil Rights Activism
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Malcolm X and the Rise of Black Power
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The Black Panther Party
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Women and the Black Power Movement
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The War on Drugs
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Shirley Chisholm
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Jesse Jackson
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Los Angeles Uprisings
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Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas
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Toni Morrison
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Barack Obama
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Black Lives Matter
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