The History of Jim Jones

In 1954, the year Jim was establishing his first church, that was the year Supreme Court ruled on Brown vs. Board of Education. In 1955, a 14-year-old black Mississippi boy named Emmet Till was brutally murdered for allegedly offending a white woman in a grocery store. That acquittal came a few months before Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of a bus and she was arrested; leading to a boycott of the Montgomery bus system under Martin Luther King Jr. The next year, in 1957, the front lines moved to Little Rock, Arkansas, where several black students were being blocked from enrollment at a high school,. President Eisenhower sent federal troops to enforce integration.