Four days before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on an Alabama bus, she attended a packed meeting about a 14-year-old Chicago boy named Emmett Till who was kidnapped and lynched while visiting family in Mississippi.
Parks would later say that young Emmett’s brutal murder was foremost on her mind when she stayed seated on that bus. And eight years later, when time came to pick a date for the March on Washington, the date organizers selected—Aug. 28—was no accident. It was the anniversary of Till’s murder.
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