There were separate schools, park benches and even water fountains for Black people and white people. Racial segregation was widespread in the South. The event was seen as a catalyst for the emerging civil rights movement, as protests followed the killers' acquittal in court.Īt about the same time, an African-American woman named Rosa Parks was arrested, sparking a protest campaign that would go down in history as the Montgomery bus boycott - another key moment in the civil rights movement. It was also the year that future celebrities Bill Gates, Bruce Willis and Whoopi Goldberg were born.Īnd it was the year that two white men brutally murdered 14-year-old Emmett Till, who was Black, in Mississippi. In 1955 in the US, radio stations were playing Bill Haley's hit "Rock Around the Clock" around the clock, Billy Wilder's romantic comedy "The Seven Year Itch" starring Marilyn Monroe premiered in New York, and the western series "Gunsmoke" launched on television.
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