21:220:231 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Emmett Till, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Tallahatchie River
24 Jun 2017
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Eyes on the prize is an american documentary based on the civil rights movements in. The documentary consists of fourteen episodes that covers various significant movements and civil rights activists from 1954 to 1985. This paper will focus on the first episode of the documentary called awakenings (1954-1956) that discusses the inhuman murder of emmett till in mississippi and the montgomery bus boycott in alabama. The episode opens up with introducing moose wright from tallahatchie river in money, Mississippi who witnessed his nephew, emmett till"s murder in september 1955. Emmett till was originally from chicago and was visiting his uncle at that moment. As a northerner, he did not know much about southern rules and customs on how to speak to a white female. According to curtis jones, emmett"s cousin, emmett went to the store to get some candy where he said. Bye, baby to a white woman before leaving.
