The Civil Rights Movement was a tragic time for everyone. Many blacks were discriminated against and enslaved. Some lost their lives for fighting for their own race. To be like everyone, to be accepted, lots of struggles and hardships were put up throughout this entire movement, and it still continues on today.

What started The Civil Rights Movement was the murder of Emmett Till. Fourteen-year-old Emmett Till was kidnapped, beaten, shot, and dumped into a nearby river because Emmett whistled at a white woman. The two white men who murdered him were both found "not guilty" after being judged by an all-white jury.

After that tragedy, was followed by even more. A black man was once hung because he absentmindedly drank out of the wrong drinking fountain. And not too long after, an all black church burned down. There were many riots for the movement. During a riot...