According to laws, Civil Rights are something that everyone has been given. However, history has shown that this has not always been the case. Civil Rights has proved that it is ok to fight for who you are, and who you want to be. These laws were not always efficient, people were hated, beaten because they were not considered “normal”. Although the fight for equal Civil Rights is important to many and the fight and suffrage still goes on today. Emmett Till changed the process and fight for Civil Rights, and his legacy is still evident today.
The murder of Emmett Till was the most horrific murder in the Civil Rights movement and both, whites and blacks, were affected. The fight for Civil rights were people who would fight for their rights and fight for the equality and this murder gave them a better reason to
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After the men beat Till to his death, his face was majorly beaten and he didn't have any chance to fight back. The men had said that they did not intend to kill him but when he showed to fear they kept going until death (pbs.org). This murder opened eyes of many whites and showed them how brutal some of them could be to others. They weren't only discriminate to other colors but to other religious because they weren't who everyone else was. This event forced people to think that doing this is okay because the two men who had did this to Till were sentenced to being guilty. The judge was a white male who sided with people like himself, at the trial the criminals were laughing smiling and thinking this was a joke (history.com). Emmett Till was put in an open casket so that towns people could see what they had done to him. His mother told them she wanted an open casket but the government said to burn him but she won that argument. The day after the trial he as burnt after many news reporters took pictures for their news