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Emmett Till 1941-1955
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Justice at last?
In August 1955 the body of 14-year-old Emmett Till was recovered from a river in Mississippi.
A month later, two white men were acquitted of his murder by an all white jury, causing an outcry that helped kick-start the US civil rights movement.
Fifty years on, the case is finally being reopened. Gary Younge reports
The Guardian G2 p. 1 6 July 2005
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/jun/06/
Emmett Till was kidnapped, tortured and killed in 1955 after he allegedly whistled at Carolyn Bryant Donham in Mississippi.
A 2017 book said she had recanted her claims.
Photograph: Bettmann, via Getty Images
Justice Department Closes Emmett Till Investigation Without Charges The department said it could not corroborate a book’s claim that a central witness had recanted her statements about Emmett, a Black teenager killed by two white men in 1955. NYT December 6, 2021
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/06/
Emmett Till in Chicago, about six months before he was killed while visiting relatives in Mississippi.
Photograph: via Associated Press
The Lasting Power of Emmett Till’s Image NYT Apr. 5, 2017
https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/04/05/
Emmett Till with his mother, later known as Mamie Till Mobley, in about 1950.
Photograph: Alamy
Carolyn Bryant Donham Dies at 88; Her Words Doomed Emmett Till She said Till, 14, had accosted her, and her testimony in the 1955 trial of her husband and his half brother was crucial in their acquittal in one of the most momentous murders in American history. NYT April 27, 2023 Updated 1:47 p.m. ET
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/27/
Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till Mobley, circa 1953.
Photograph: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, gift of the Mamie Till Mobley family
A picture of U.S. democracy in action: Black people at work, rest and play NPR February 22, 2022 6:47 AM ET
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In this 3 September 1955 file photo, mourners pass Emmett Till’s casket in Chicago.
Photograph: AP
Will justice finally be done for Emmett Till? Family hope a 65-year wait may soon be over
Not a day has been spent in jail nor a penny paid in compensation for the brutal murder of a 14-year-old boy in Mississippi that helped spark the civil rights movement G Sat 25 Apr 2020 07.00 BST Last modified on Sat 25 Apr 2020 07.02 BST
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Mamie Till Mobley, the mother of Emmett Till, weeping at his funeral.
Photograph: Chicago Sun-Times, via Associated Press
Related: Emmett Till’s mother at his funeral in 1955.
She had insisted that the coffin be open, to show the world what his killers had done.
Photograph: Chicago-Sun Times, via Associated Press
Woman Linked to 1955 Emmett Till Murder Tells Historian Her Claims Were False NYT JAN. 27, 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/us/
Related: Mamie Till Mobley weeps at her son’s funeral.
Photograph: AP
Selma through my father's eyes: 'What did these people die for?' G Friday 16 January 2015 19.07 GMT Last modified on Friday 16 January 2015 19.56 GMT
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Justice at last?
In August 1955 the body of 14-year-old Emmett Till was recovered from a river in Mississippi.
A month later, two white men were acquitted of his murder by an all white jury, causing an outcry that helped kick-start the US civil rights movement.
Fifty years on, the case is finally being reopened. Gary Younge reports
The Guardian G2 p. 1 6 June 2005
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/jun/06/
Emmett Till’s mother, Mamie, at his funeral.
Photograph: Bettmann, via Getty Images
Emmett Till’s Enduring Legacy Here is a look at who he was, the outrage at his murder and the acquittal of his killers, and how he has shaped the civil rights movement in America. NYT April 27, 2023 2:30 p.m. ET https://www.nytimes.com/article/who-was-emmett-till.html
Title: STOP Mississippi Terror!! Ticket to protest of Emmett Till murder. Although advertised as one of the speakers, Mamie Bradley, Till's mother (1921-2003), did not appear at the event but instead his uncle, ____ spoke.
Creator/Contributor: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. West Coast Region 1944-, sponsor
Date: 1955 November 13 http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb9489p1xc/ http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/themed_collections/subtopic6a.html
The sign marking the river where Till's body was found was moved to the Emmett Till Interpretive Center after it was vandalized.
Its replacement was also shot up.
Photograph: Robert Rausch for The New York Times
Past and Present The Freedom Trail in Mississippi Is a Chronicle of Outrage and Courage The route is an indictment of the cruelty of racism and a commemoration of those who fought against it. NYT Sept. 10, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/10/
Section of the Tallahatchie River where body of murdered black teeager Emmett Till was found.
Location: Sumner, MS, US
Date taken: 1955
Photographer: Ed Clark
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100lb fan used to weight body of the slain teen on display during the trial for the murder of Emmett Till.
Location: Sumner, MS, US
Date taken: 1955
Photographer: Ed Clark
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Site of Emmett Till's kidnapping.
Location: MS, US
Date taken: September 1955
Photographer: Ed Clark
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Roy Bryant (CL) and J. W. Milam (CR) posing with their wives to celebrate their acquittal for the murder of Emmett Till.
Location: MS, US
Date taken: September 1955
Photographer: Ed Clark
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Jurors during a recess of the Emmett Till murder trial at the Tallahatchie County Courthouse, Sumner, Miss., 1955.
Photograph: Florence Mars Courtesy of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History
Bearing Witness to Jim Crow in Mississippi With Uncompromising Candor
Florence Mars captured a fading but no less virulent racial order in Mississippi, when forces beyond its control were gradually dismantling the state’s system of legalized segregation. NYT Feb. 19, 2019
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/19/
Carolyn Bryant and her husband, holding their sons, at his murder trial in 1955.
Photograph: Ed Clark The LIFE Picture Collection, via Getty Images
Black Lives, White Lies and Emmett Till NYT Feb. 6, 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/06/
Carolyn Bryant Donham, second from right, sitting beside her former husband, Roy Bryant, right, and J.W. Milam, far left, during their trial in Emmett Till’s murder in Sumner, Miss., in 1955.
Photograph: Associated Press
Mississippi Grand Jury Declines to Indict Woman in Emmett Till Murder Case= Carolyn Bryant Donham had accused the 14-year-old boy of whistling at her in 1955. His killing helped galvanize the civil rights movement. NYT Aug. 9, 2022
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/09/
Defendants Roy Bryant [ left ] & J. W. Milam [ center ] talking to their lawyer during their trial for the murder of Emmett Till.
Location: Sumner, MS, US
Date taken: 1955
Photographer: Ed Clark
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Defendant J. W. Milam's relatives, including mother Eula Lee Bryant (2L) during his trial for the murder of Emmett Till.
Location: Sumner, MS, US
Date taken: 1955
Photographer: Ed Clark
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Store belonging to murder defendant Roy Bryant.
Location: MS, US
Date taken: September 1955
Photographer: Ed Clark
Life Images http://images.google.com/hosted/life/5de52165b7bbbaa7.html
African American press reporters sitting at seperate card table during the trial for the murder of black teenager Emmitt Till, allegedly by two white men.
Location: Sumner, MS, US
Date taken: 1955
Photographer: Ed Clark
Life Images
Moses Wright & Mamie Bradley (1921-2003) , uncle & mother respectively of murdered boy Emmett Till, speaking to press during the trial for his murder.
Location: Sumner, MS, US
Date taken: 1955
Photographer: Ed Clark
Life Images
This dramatic courtroom scene shows 64-year-old ‘Uncle Mose’ Wright as he identifies the defendants, Roy Bryant and JW Milan, as the men who came to his home and took Emmett Till away with them.
Photograph: Bettmann Archive
Will justice finally be done for Emmett Till? Family hope a 65-year wait may soon be over
Not a day has been spent in jail nor a penny paid in compensation for the brutal murder of a 14-year-old boy in Mississippi that helped spark the civil rights movement G Sat 25 Apr 2020 07.00 BST Last modified on Sat 25 Apr 2020 07.02 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/25/
TILL Official Trailer MGM Studios 2022
TILL Video Official Trailer MGM Studios 25 July 2022
Witness the power of a mother’s love.
Watch the official trailer for #TillMovie now, and see the never-before-told story of Mamie Till Mobley’s quest for justice for her son, Emmett.
In theaters this October.
DIRECTED BY: Chinonye Chukwu
WRITTEN BY: Michael Reilly, Keith Beauchamp, and Chinonye Chukwu
CAST: Danielle Deadwyler, Whoopi Goldberg, Jalyn Hall, Frankie Faison, Jayme Lawson, Tosin Cole, Kevin Carroll, Sean Patrick Thomas, John Douglas Thompson, Roger Guenveur Smith, and Haley Bennett.
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkQi6GBwmSA
Emmett Louis "Bobo" Till murder
Emmett Till Video Part 1, History Documentary on Civil Rights
Watch this compelling excerpt from Civil Rights Heroes, a documentary from Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Martin Kent, which originally aired on Discovery Networks.
Emmett Till was a 14-year-old African-American boy, who was murdered by white racists in the racially segregated Mississippi of 1955.
The men who killed him were acquitted.
After their acquittal, they famously admitted their part in the murder.
Tills death, which made national headlines, set off a firestorm that launched the Civil Rights Movement. A History Documentary on Civil Rights.
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The Death of Emmett Till
The Death of Emmett Till Video Tony fox Jul 1, 2008
Bob Dylan's interpretation of the Murder of Emmett Till. For the 2008 SHP conference workshop
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywc3YFeMiYE
Emmett Louis "Bobo" Till July 25, 1941 - August 28, 1955
Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black kid born and raisedin Chicago, went down in August 1955 to visit some relatives in the hamlet of Money, Miss.
One day, he walked into a country store there, Bryant's Grocery and Meat Market, and, on a dare, said something fresh to the white woman behind the counter -- 21-year-old Carolyn Bryant, the owner's wife -- or asked her for a date, or maybe wolf-whistled at her.
A few nights later, her husband, Roy Bryant (1931-1994), and his half brother, J.W. Milam (1919-1981), yanked young Till out of bed and off into the dark Delta, where they beat, tortured and, ultimately, shot him in the head and pushed him into the Tallahatchie River.
His body, though tied to a heavy cotton-gin fan with barbed wire, surfaced a few days later, whereupon Bryant and Milam were arrested and charged with murder.
Reporters from all over the country -- and even from abroad -- converged upon the little courthouse in Sumner, Miss., to witness the trial.
The prosecution mounted an excellent case and went after the defendants with surprising vigor;
the judge was eminently fair, refusing to allow race to become an issue in the proceedings, at least overtly.
Nevertheless, the jury, 12 white men, acquitted the defendants after deliberating for just 67 minutes -- and only that long, one of them said afterward, because they stopped to have a soda pop in order to stretch things out and ''make it look good.''
Shortly thereafter, the killers, immune from further prosecution, met with and proudly confessed everything (1910-1986), a journalist who published their story in Look magazine.
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2021
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2020
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2019
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2018
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2017
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2016
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2015
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2013
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2012
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2010
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2007
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2005
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2004
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1955
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Willie Louis 1937-2013
Willie Louis (...) named the killers of Emmett Till at their trial
18-year-old Mr. Reed, after braving intimidation from one of the suspects and walking through the thicket of Klansmen massed outside the courthouse, testified in open court to what he had seen and heard.
The son of a family of black sharecroppers, Mr. Reed was spirited out of Mississippi immediately after the trial.
He changed his name to Willie Louis and lived discreetly in Chicago, where he worked as a hospital orderly.
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Louis Till 1922-1945
American soldier and convicted rapist and murderer.
He is best known as the father of Emmett Louis Till, whose murder in 1955 at the age of fourteen galvanized the African-American civil rights movement.
A soldier during World War II, Louis Till was executed by the U.S. Army in 1945 after being found guilty of murder and rape.
The circumstances of his death were little known even to his family until they were revealed after the trial of his son's murderers ten years later, which affected subsequent discourse on the death of Emmett Till. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Till
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Carolyn Bryant Donham 1934-2023
Carolyn Bryant with her husband, Roy Bryant, and their children during his trial in 1955.
Photograph: Ed Clark The LIFE Picture Collection, via Shutterstock
Carolyn Bryant Donham Dies at 88; Her Words Doomed Emmett Till She said Till, 14, had accosted her, and her testimony in the 1955 trial of her husband and his half brother was crucial in their acquittal in one of the most momentous murders in American history. NYT April 27, 2023 Updated 1:47 p.m. ET
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/27/
Carolyn Bryant Donham, second from right
In this 23 September 1955, file photo, JW Milam, left, and Roy Bryant, right, sit with their wives in a courtroom in Sumner, Mississippi.
Milam and Bryant were acquitted of the murder of Emmett Till.
Photograph: AP
Will justice finally be done for Emmett Till? Family hope a 65-year wait may soon be over
Not a day has been spent in jail nor a penny paid in compensation for the brutal murder of a 14-year-old boy in Mississippi that helped spark the civil rights movement G Sat 25 Apr 2020 07.00 BST Last modified on Sat 25 Apr 2020 07.02 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/25/
[ Carolyn Bryant Donham sitting beside Roy Bryant ]
Credit: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images
Shed No Tears for Carolyn Bryant Donham NYT July 17, 2022
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/17/
Mrs. Bryant with her sons outside the store where she said Emmett Till had accosted her.
Photograph: Getty Images
Carolyn Bryant Donham Dies at 88; Her Words Doomed Emmett Till She said Till, 14, had accosted her, and her testimony in the 1955 trial of her husband and his half brother was crucial in their acquittal in one of the most momentous murders in American history. NYT April 27, 2023 Updated 1:47 p.m. ET
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/27/
Carolyn Bryant Donham 1934-2023
born Madge Carolyn Holloway
In 1955, Carolyn Bryant Donham (then just Carolyn Bryant), a 21-year-old white woman, accused Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black boy, of making an unwelcome advance at her.
Those accusations led to the boy’s brutal murder.
Her then-husband, Roy Bryant, and brother-in-law, J.W. Milam, were charged with the crime.
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