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Emmett Louis "Bobo" Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was an African-American youth native to Chicago, Illinois whose brutal murder in Mississippi was one of the key events leading up to the American Civil Rights Movement. He was the son of Mamie Carthan and Louis Till. Mamie largely raised the boy on her own; she and Louis had separated in 1942. His father was drafted into the United States Army because of World War II in 1943, and was executed by the U.S. Army for raping two Italian women and murdering a third. July 25 is the 206th day (207th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 159 days remaining. ...
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In 1955, when Emmett was 14 years old, he was sent for a summer stay with family in Mississippi. He arrived in Money, Mississippi on August 21, and went to stay with his great uncle, Moses Wright. A few days later on the 24th, he joined some other teenagers as they went to Bryant's Grocery and Meat Market to get some refreshments. They were children of sharecroppers and had been picking cotton all day. The market was owned by Roy Bryant and Carolyn Bryant, who mostly catered to this sharecropper population. While in the store, Emmett reportedly whistled at Carolyn and/or made a romantic proposition of her, an action that supposedly angered her husband. August 21 is the 233rd day of the year (234th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
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Sharecropping is a system of farming in which employee farmers work a parcel of land in return for a fraction of the parcels crops. ...
Cotton is a soft fibre that grows around the seeds of the cotton plant, a shrub native to the tropical and subtropical regions of both the Old World and the New World. ...
It is said that, at about 2:30 AM on August 28, Roy Bryant and his half brother, J.W. Milam, kidnapped Emmett from his uncle's house in Money, Mississippi. They brutally beat him and then shot him with a .45 caliber pistol before tying a heavy fan to his neck with barbed wire in order to weigh it down. An eye was also gouged out. Milam and Bryant were soon under suspicion in the boy's disappearance, and were arrested on the 29th. The body was recovered from the Tallahatchie River three days later on August 31. Another editor has suggested that this article might be improved by more material on its significance. ...
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Mamie brought the body back to Chicago. A funeral home director asked her if she would like the body to be cleaned up for viewing, but she declined. She wanted people to see how badly the boy's body had been disfigured in the incident, so she chose to leave his coffin open. Press photographers took pictures and circulated them around the country, drawing intense reaction by the public. Some reports indicate that up to 50,000 people filed through the funeral home to view the body. The photograph of Emmett Till's mutilated corpse energized the nascent civil rights movement when they appeared in Jet Magazine. A funeral home is a place where a funeral is arranged. ...
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As Emmett was buried on September 6 in Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois, Bryant and Milam were indicted in Mississippi by a grand jury in the killing. On 19th, the trial began, involving unprecedented cooperation between local law enforcement, the NAACP, and local reporters. However, the investigation was less than thorough, and when a jury made up of 12 white males, came back from deliberations on September 23 after just 67 minutes, the two defendants were acquitted. (One jury member said they took a "soda break" to stretch the time to over an hour.) The acquittal outraged people throughout the United States and Europe. Stories about the trial had been carried in countries such as France, Germany, and Belgium. September 6 is the 249th day of the year (250th in leap years). ...
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In a 1956 article in Look magazine, J.W. Milam admitted that he and his brother had killed Till. They claimed that when they intially took Till into their custody, their intention was to pistol-whip him and threaten to throw him off of a cliff in order to scare him into line. However, they claimed that regardless of what they did to him, he never showed any fear of them, never seemed to believe they would really kill him, and maintained a completely unrepentant, insolent and defiant attitude toward them concerning his actions. Thus, they felt they were left with no choice but to fully make an example of him. 1956 was a leap year starting on Sunday. ...
Look was a weekly, general-interest magazine published in the United States from 1937 to 1971, with more of an emphasis on photographs than articles. ...
To pistol whip someone means to hit someone on the head with a gun (typically a handgun), usually to either knock them unconscious and/or cause them pain. ...
A year later, the magazine returned to the story, indicating that Milam and Bryant had been shunned by the community, and that their stores were then closed due to lack of business.
Milam died of cancer in 1980, and Bryant died of cancer in 1990. Mamie (as Mamie Till Mobley) outlived them, dying at age 81 on January 6, 2003. 1980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...
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On May 10, 2004, the United States Department of Justice announced that it was reopening the case, an action the NAACP had been calling for. They want to investigate further to see if anyone else was involved in the murder besides Milam and Bryant. Although the federal statute of limitations from 1955 has expired, the charges can appear in the state court. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and officials in Mississippi would also be involved in the investigation. On May 31, 2005 Till's body was exhumed from the suburban Chicago cemetery where he was buried. The Cook County medical examiner's office conducted an autopsy on the body, which was then reburied by relatives on June 4. No autopsy was performed at the time of his death. May 10 is the 130th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (131st in leap years). ...
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The documentary "The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till", assembled by filmmaker Keith Beauchamp apparently led to the renewed interest. Another documentary by Stanley Nelson had aired on PBS in 2003. Research from those films indicated that as many 10 people may have been involved in the killing. A documentary is a work in a visual or auditory medium presenting political, scientific, social, or historical subjects in a factual and informative manner. ...
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"The murder of Emmett Till has been seared on to the collective memory of most African Americans. It was the subject of the first play by the Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, of a poem by the Harlem Renaissance writer Langston Hughes, and of a song by Bob Dylan."[1] (http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1499919,00.html) The James Baldwin play "Blues for Mister Charlie" is loosely based on the Emmett Till case. Toni Morrison Toni Morrison is an African-American author, born Chloe Anthony Wofford, February 18, 1931 in Lorain, Ohio. ...
Langston Hughes, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1936 Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 – May 22, 1967) was an African American poet, novelist, playwright, and newspaper columnist. ...
Portrait photograph of Bob Dylan taken by Daniel Kramer Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman May 24, 1941) is widely regarded as one of Americas greatest popular songwriters. ...
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Eyes on the Prize: Americas Civil Rights Years (1954-1965) is a documentary series about the American Civil Rights Movement. ...
References - The Emmett Till Murder (http://www.emmetttillmurder.com)
- The Murder of Emmett Till. (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/till/) American Experience - Transcript and additional materials for PBS film. Accessed May 10, 2004.
- Maria Newman (May 10, 2004). U.S. to Reopen Investigation of Emmett Till's Murder in 1955. (http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/10/national/10CND-TILL.html?ex=1084852800&en=94feeb3c6f280f5b&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE) The New York Times. Accessed May 10, 2004.
- Lynching victim's body reburied (http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/06/04/crimes.lynching.reut/index.html), CNN.com June 4, 2005
- Gary Younge, The Guardian, 6 June 2005, "Justice at last?" (http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1499919,00.html)
- Stephen Whitfield, A Death in the Delta (1988 book)
- Keith Beauchamp, "The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till" (2004 documentary)
American Experience (sometimes abbreviated AmEx) is a television program aired on the PBS network in the United States. ...
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