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Whose murder is viewed as the catalyst for the African-American civil rights movement?
  1. Martin Luther King Jr.
  2. Emmett Till
  3. Medgar Evers
  4. John Kennedy
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Answer: B - Emmett Till was a 14-year-old African-American boy visiting relatives in Mississippi in 1955 when he was murdered by two white men. Till may or may not have attempted to flirt with a 21-year-old white woman earlier that day; her husband was one of the men who killed him.
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