Nine-year-old Emmett Till (1950) enjoys time with his mom, Mamie Till Bradley. A white woman accused Emmett of offensive, flirtatious advances, and the local white men responded by abducting, beating, mutilating, shooting, and sinking Emmett in a nearby river. They were found “not guilty” of murder.Submitted by AdSnoo9734 t3_113ha3u in OldSchoolCool
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Ruby Bridges (~1960)—the first Black student allowed into the white-only school system in the South—courageously spends time in the schoolyard with her peers. Ruby’s entire class refused to attend class when she first arrived at school, but it seems that things got somewhat better with time.Submitted by AdSnoo9734 t3_10vn9dm in OldSchoolCool
Elizabeth Eckford (Little Rock Arkansas) courageously goes to school during the segregationist Jim Crow era, Sept 1957.Submitted by AdSnoo9734 t3_1107h0s in LifeProTips
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