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Emmett Till 28/10/2021

Emmett Till 28/10/2021

Emmett Till Emmett Louis Till was born in Chicago on July 25, 1941. Emmett

Emmett Till Emmett Louis Till was born in Chicago on July 25, 1941. Emmett was the only child of Louis and Mamie Till. He never knew his father, a soldier, who died during World War II. 28/10/2021

Emmett Till At the age of five, Emmett was stricken with polio. He recovered

Emmett Till At the age of five, Emmett was stricken with polio. He recovered but was left with a slight stutter. Despite his childhood illness, he grew up a happy boy. 28/10/2021

Emmett Till Although blacks and whites were segregated in Chicago, black businesses were booming.

Emmett Till Although blacks and whites were segregated in Chicago, black businesses were booming. Emmett did not understand southerners attitude towards Blacks. 28/10/2021

Emmett Till In August 1955, Emmett's great uncle Moses Wright came up from Mississippi

Emmett Till In August 1955, Emmett's great uncle Moses Wright came up from Mississippi and paid the family a visit. On his way back, he was taking Emmett's cousin Wheeler Parker with him to spend time with relatives down South. When Emmett heard that, he wanted to go. He was 14 years old. 28/10/2021

Emmett Till The day before Emmett left, Mamie gave her son Louis Till's signet

Emmett Till The day before Emmett left, Mamie gave her son Louis Till's signet ring, one of the few possessions she had from her former husband. Mamie tried to warn Emmett that the South was a different place than Chicago, and the black people needed to be cautious down there. 28/10/2021

Emmett joins a group of teenagers, seven boys and one girl, to go to

Emmett joins a group of teenagers, seven boys and one girl, to go to Bryant's Grocery and Meat Market for refreshments to cool off after a long day of picking cotton in the hot sun. Bryant's Grocery, owned by a white couple, Roy and Carolyn Bryant, sells supplies and candy to primarily black sharecroppers and their children. Emmett goes into the store to buy bubble gum. Some of the kids outside the store will later say they heard Emmett whistle (or said “bye baby”) at Carolyn Bryant (on a dare). 28/10/2021

Bryant’s Store today. 28/10/2021

Bryant’s Store today. 28/10/2021

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 About 2: 30 a. m. , Roy Bryant, Carolyn's husband, and his half

About 2: 30 a. m. , Roy Bryant, Carolyn's husband, and his half brother J. W. Milam, kidnap Emmett Till from his uncle Mose Wright's home. They will later describe brutally beating him, taking him to the edge of the Tallahatchie River, shooting him in the head, fastening a large metal fan used for ginning cotton to his neck with barbed wire, and pushing the body into the river. 28/10/2021

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 J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant are arrested on kidnapping charges in Le.

J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant are arrested on kidnapping charges in Le. Flore County in connection with Till's disappearance. They are jailed in Greenwood, Mississippi and held without bond. Three days later, Emmett Till's decomposed corpse is pulled from Mississippi's Tallahatchie River. Mose Wright identifies the body from a ring with the initials L. T. 28/10/2021

Emmett Till Emmett's mother decides to have an open casket funeral. Thousands of Chicagoans

Emmett Till Emmett's mother decides to have an open casket funeral. Thousands of Chicagoans wait in line to see Emmett's brutally beaten body. 28/10/2021

“Let them see what they have done to my boy. ” Mamie Till 28/10/2021

“Let them see what they have done to my boy. ” Mamie Till 28/10/2021

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Jury selection begins and, with blacks and white women banned from serving, an allwhite,

Jury selection begins and, with blacks and white women banned from serving, an allwhite, 12 -man jury made up of nine farmers, two carpenters and one insurance agent is selected. 28/10/2021

MOSE WRIGHT Mose Wright, Emmett Till's great uncle, does the unthinkable -- he accuses

MOSE WRIGHT Mose Wright, Emmett Till's great uncle, does the unthinkable -- he accuses two white men in open court. While on the witness stand, he stands up and points his finger at Milam and Bryant, and accuses them of coming to his house and kidnapping Emmett. 28/10/2021

Milam and Bryant are acquitted of murdering Emmett Till after the jury deliberates only

Milam and Bryant are acquitted of murdering Emmett Till after the jury deliberates only 67 minutes. One juror tells a reporter that they wouldn't have taken so long if they hadn't stopped to drink pop. 28/10/2021

Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam stand before photographers, light up cigars and kiss

Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam stand before photographers, light up cigars and kiss their wives in celebration of the not guilty verdict. 28/10/2021

Milam and Bryant later sold their story to a national magazine. In it, they

Milam and Bryant later sold their story to a national magazine. In it, they admitted killing Emmett Till, and described in sickening detail just how they did it and why. Because of double jeopardy (the legal principle in the United States that you cannot be tried for the same crime twice), both men got away with the murder. 28/10/2021

Decades later, Duke University professor Timothy B. Tyson interviewed Carolyn Bryant, the woman who

Decades later, Duke University professor Timothy B. Tyson interviewed Carolyn Bryant, the woman who Till had been accused of whistling at, for his book “The Blood of Emmett Till. ” The interview created a sensation when Bryant admitted none of the things Emmett Till had been accused of actually happened. 28/10/2021

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