Baylee- Timeline

(Greensboro, N.C.) Four black students from North Carolina Agriculture and Technical College begin a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter. Although they are refused service, they are allowed to sit at the counter. The event triggers many similar non-violent protests throughout the South. Six months later, the original four protesters are served lunch at the same Woolworth's counter. Student sit-ins would be effective throughout the Deep South in integrating parks, swimming pools, theatres, libraries, and other public facilities.

I really liked how they started some non-violent protests- it goes to show that violent methods arent always the most effective.

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(Washington, D.C.) About 200,000 people join the March on Washington. Congregating at the Lincoln Memorial, participants listen as Martin Luther King delivers his famous, 'I Have a Dream' speech.

That would be amazing to see that speech in person! So many people supported the civil rights movement; 200,000 people!

Baylee- Opinion on the Emmett Till Movie

I thought the movie was very, very frightening and sad. It made me wish people werent so stupid! It really affected me and made me wish I could do something about all of this racism and idiocy. I couldnt stop talking about it afterwards. How can the murderers live with themselves?

Baylee- I Agree With the Open Casket

I completely agree and support Emmet's mother with her choice to have an open casket funeral. However so unpleasant, the image of this mangled 14 year old boy's body would stick in your mind for a long time- possibly for the rest of your life- when most words are in one ear and out the other. "She made America deal with its ugly racial problem." (quote from the movie)

What I Thought About the Movie-Liana

I felt terrible for Emmet Till. Just because he whistled to a white woman, he got tortured and killed. The way he was killed was horrifying! I wish that white woman wouldn't have told her husband, because then Emmet wouldn't have been killed. I think her husbad just freaked out over the fact that a black person whistled to his wife. I felt really bad for Emmet's parents. They must have felt so sad and angry at the people who were responsible for her son's death. I can't believe the men who killed Emmet had nothing done to them. They weren't even put in jail! Emmet's parents must feel so angry about that. Emmet was just 14 and he was killed for whistling at a white woman.

Do You Think Emmet Till's Mother Should Have Had the Casket Open?-Liana

I think Emmet Till's mother should have had the casket open because it showed tons of people what happened to Emmet just because he whistled to a white woman. Just because he did that, he got tortured and killed. I also think by having the casket open, it showed what two men could do to a 14 year old.

What I thought about the movie (Emmitt Till)-Kellsz.

I think Emmitt's movie was heart-wrentching.
I can't imagine how Emmitt's mother felt when she found out what happened to her son and when she saw him, she must have been a strong person to be so determinded to see her son in very bad condition. It is so sad that Emmitt was over-tortured just because she /wolf/ whislted to a white woman.
I think the person to blame for all this treachery (sp?) is the white woman, if she hadn't just blabbed off to her husband none of this would have happened.

What I though about the movie~Alicia

I think it was horrible the way they treated Emmett Till. I can not believe how much they torchered him from one whisle. I mean the way they torchered him was something you could not even believe was happening. It was horrible. I could not imagine what his parents had to go through. To have to see what kind of things people did to a 14 year old boy back then.

Do you think that Emmet Louis Till's mother was right to have an open casket public funeral??? Alicia

I think it was right to have an open casket public funeral because then everybody could see what horribly stuff the white people did for things like a simple whistle. It makes me feel horrible of what they did to him.

Emmitt Till's poll.- Kellsz

I think that having an open casket public funeral was a sad, but reasonable choice because then all the people going to the open casket funeral would see what a white person was capable of, and what would happen if you whistled to a white person.

A fact on the civil rights movement. -will

In 1960, four black students sat at a table in a segregated lunch counter. They were not served, but sat down on those seats for the rest of the day. This triggered several other sit-ins as they are called, and nonviolent riots across the 'South'. Six months later the four protestors are served lunch at that same table. This is an example of how perservering the people who were involved in the civil rights act were.