The Rise and Fall of Emmett Till

The case of Emmett Till and its role in sparking the civil rights movement, you could really look at a few different things there that would have caused that. He was only 14 years old; while he wasn't the first 14-year-old or child to be lynched, it was the first one who got any attention. The body was on display for five days after the arrived in Chicago and before the burial. And so thousands, tens of thousands of people. You don't bear witness to concentration camps and think that racial justice is an abstraction.