US Civil Rights: the lynching of Emmett Till
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The Black Freedom Struggle in the Americas
When Mammy Till Mobley decided to have an open casket for her son, she rallied the protest power of Chicago's black community. "There has been a black freedom struggle in the Americas since there have been black people in the Americas" World War II is in many ways a key moment in the black freedom struggle and perhaps the originating moment of the civil rights movement.
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