CIVIL+RIGHTSJS

It was not until the sixties that a hundred years of effort would begin to garner the attention necessary to force a modicum of change. The African-American community, being in the minority, depended on the support of the white population, and at least in terms of sentiment, those caught up in the spirit of the hippie movement took the cause of racial justice and equality to heart, and often to the streets. Rosa Parks was a big part of the civil rights. She was often called the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement. She refused to give her seat up to a white person. She was arrested for it. Emmett Till was an African American who said "Bye Baby" to a white woman. In Mississippi, it was illegal for a black person to talk to a white person. Two boys dragged him to a barn one night and beat him and tortured him. After the beat him so bad, they rolled his bloody body to a lake to kill him there. They watched him die slowly. Another big person in the Civil Rights Movement was Martin Luther King Jr.