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A major turning point in the Civil Rights Movement was marked by the death of Emmett Till who was lynched in Money Mississippi in 1955 for supposedly whistling at a white woman. Prior to which Brown vs. Board of Education, afterwhich Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give her seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama. This along with other significant pages in history like the Little Rock Nine, the college students sit-in, water hoses, bombings and other catastrophic events all played a major part in birthing the civil rights movement.

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