Themovement is led by a single motherof three from the southern township of Mitzpe Ramon, Vicki Knafo, who walked the 120 miles to Jerusalem and is now encamped in a tent outside the ministry of finance.
And the brutalized body of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black boy killed in 1955 for allegedly flirting with a white woman, was shown at the insistence of his mother at his funeral, galvanizing the civil rights movement, Shapiro said.
Themovement was sparked by the arrest that year of Manal al-Sharif, a Saudi technology consultant and mother who was detained for nine days for driving her own car.