On September 4, 1957, nine students tried to attend their new school for the first time and participated in one of the significant events of the Civil Rights Movement. Governor Orval Faubus ordered the Arkansas National Guard to surround Central High School in Little…
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On August 28, 1955, one of the worst examples of violence and injustice occurred in Money, Mississippi. Emmett Louis Till, a 14-year-old African American boy from Chicago, was brutally murdered while visiting his cousins in Mississippi after allegedly whistling at a white woman, Carolyn…
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