YEAR 10 HISTORY

Yearly
Examination

SOURCE BOOKLET

Source A
Picketers outside the Woolworth store in Harlem, New York, in support of desegregation in the South
Source B
A flyer for the March on Washington, 1963
Source C
Mamie Till at the public funeral of her son in Chicago, 1955.

Source D
Excerpt from Adeel Hassan, ‘Emmett Till’s Enduring Legacy’, The New York Times, April 27, 2023

The Black Americans who grew up in the 1950s organized nearly all of the
mass meetings, sit-ins and marches that accelerated the civil rights
movement, calling themselves “the Emmett Till generation.”
“I realized that this could just as easily have been a story about me or my
brother,” Muhammad Ali said.
Representative John Lewis of Georgia wrote that he had been “shaken to the
core” by Emmett’s death. As was Representative Bobby L. Rush of Illinois, who
was 9 years old and living in the Deep South at the time of the killing.
“When the photograph from Emmett Till’s funeral ran in Jet magazine, I will
never forget how my mother gathered us around the living room coffee table,
put the magazine in the middle, pointed to it, and said, ‘This is why I brought
my boys up out of Albany, Ga.,’” he said in an interview. “That photograph
shaped my consciousness as a Black man in America. The course of my life
would not have been the same had I not been exposed, as a child, to the
horror of the photograph.”