1955

1955, Emmett Tills featured on the cover of Look Magazine

Collin Bish, Jon Thoms, Lovenia Williams

**" The Shocking Story of Approved Killing Mississippi"**

The killers were paid $4,000 for participating in this article.

Emmett Till

To learn and know everything about him, click here-> [|The Story of Emmett Till]. Aurgust 31st, Till's body was found in the Tallahatchie river.

J.W. Milam & Roy Bryant

Two white men from Mississippi aquitted in the 1955 kidnapping and murder of Emmett Till. The two men were half brothers, Roy Bryant and J.W. Miliam. Roy Bryant was the owner of the grocery store that Emmett was in. After the case, people refused to go to the store and so they went bankrupt. August 28 was when the two men abducted Till from his great uncle's house. They beat him but Emmett was unrepentant. So, they decided to kill Emmett to make an example of him. They beat Till with a gun, shot him, and threw his body in the Tallahatchie River with a heavy cotto gin fan attached with barbed wire to his neck to weigh him down. They took him to the river and made him strip down naked. Milam asked Emmett, "you still better than me?" "Yeah," Till responded. Milam then shot him in the head. They tied Emmett's body to a cotton gin fan with barbed wire and dumped his body into the river. The men were arrested but still kept their innocence. [|Who Killed Emmett Till?]  The two men were interviewed and did a [|Killers' Confession]

The Open Casket Funeral

September 3rd was when Till's mother held his open casket funeral. His mother wanted the funeral to be open casket because she wanted everyone to see what the two men had done to her son. 5,000 people had attened the funeral and jet magazine published graphic photos of Till's corset.

The Trial

September 19 was when the trial had begun. September 23rd, an all-white-men jury aqquited the trial for a little over an hour. The trial sparked the Civil Rights Movement. No one else was tried in the murder. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 200%;">People


 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Muderers: J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Victim: Emmett Till
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Emmett's mother: Mamie Till

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 200%;">Quotes


 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">"Be careful. If you have to get down on your knees and bow when a white person goes past, do it willingly." Emmett Till's mother, Mamie Till
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">In 1992, Emmett's mother had the opportunity to listen while Roy Bryant was interviewed about his involvement in Till's murder. With Bryant unaware that she was listening, he asserted that Emmett Till had ruined his life, expressed no remorse, and stated "Emmett Till is dead. I don't know why he can't just stay dead."
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">//"This is not a lynching. It is straight out murder."// --Hugh White, Governor of Mississippi, 1955

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