Eyes on the Prize:Awakening 1954-1956

The film Eyes of the Prize was a very informational film about how African Americans strugaled to gain freedom in the 1950's. Its main purpose was to inform people about history in the south and how it affected the rest of the country. The film also said that it was made and the events that happened because it was ordinary people doing extrodinary things back then.
Emmit Till was the boy who's situation most famously started the movements. Emmit Till was a fourteen year old boy that went down to Mississippi to pick cotton with his friends. It happened August 1, 1955; Emmit Till was walking out of a store in the deep south when he turned to a white girl and said "bye baby." He was told afterward it was a stupid thing to say and to leave now. Mose Wright was Emmit's uncle and witnessed two white men come and take Emmit away with them. Emmit's body was found a couple days later in the Talahassee River beaten horribly and had a bullet in his forhead. His open casket funeral created an uproar throughout the south and caused many people to stand up in non-violent protest. There were serveral protest such as Rosa Parks standing here ground and staying seated in a white persons place on a bus. There was also a lot of protests that sat down at white cafe counters and refused to leave and waited to be served. Those black people were beaten and verbally assulted for there doings and were thrown in jail for 30 days. The Mongomery Improvement Association made it right for blacks to be served and for them to go to the same school as whites. But what plade the most important role in all of this was the music at the time and students, because without out both of them, nothing would have been done and Emmit Till's generation did a great job fixing the problem that he was killed from.
What would have happened if the revolts happened in todays time and the easy abilitiy for fire arms would have been around?
What if Emmit Till Would have left the south and lived, how long would it have taken for the revolts to occur then?
This film was very informational and opened my eyes alittle more to the horrors that African Americans had to deal with. I really like the movie and found it very interesting. It makes me wonder what my parents or grandparents role was in all of this. I can only hope that it was to help the needy and display their best interest to help who they could. I know that if i was around back then, i would help everyone i know and wouldn't let anyone pursuade me. It makes me happy to know that a group of people stood up and pushed for what they believed in because it doesn't happen to often like that.