The Emmet Till Case

In the novel Civil rights reader, the author through his tale of Emmet Till suggests that white people had a superiority over the Negroes to such an extent, that one little mistake on the Negroes part can cost them their life. " He was brutally murdered there for purportedly whistling at - or speaking disrespectfully to- a white woman." This shows the fear that the whites wanted to instill in the African Americans yet it triggered an even bigger civil rights movement.