The Civil Rights Movement: Martin Luther King And Rosa Parks

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The Civil Rights Movement was a struggle by African Americans in the mid-1950s to late 1960s to achieve Civil Rights equal to those of whites. In that time period, role models such as Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, and Emmett Till were alive. They each wanted a world from which black and white people could coexist as equals. Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks both stood up for what they believed in, they believed that horrendous tragedies like Emmett Till’s should not develop. Emmett Till was a fourteen-year old boy who was murdered by two white men because a woman accused Till of grabbing her waist and whispering into her ear. Till did no such thing but it was already too late. He was kidnapped, beaten, his eye was gouged out, and he was