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Cause And Effect Essay: The Murder Of Emmett Till

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Emmett Till was a 14 year old African American boy who was brutally beaten and murdered for allegedly whistling at a white woman. Emmett Till an African American was visiting a relative in Money, Mississippi. While he was there, he entered a small store but no one knows what really happened (source 1). Carolyn Bryant says he wolf whistled at her after being dared to ask her out. The owner of the store and Carolyn’s husband Roy Bryant was furious. Till’s friends also heard him say “ bye, baby” to the woman. Till was kidnapped tortured and killed by J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant (source 2). They gouged out his eye, tied him to a cotton gin fan and threw him into a river. His body was unidentifiable when the police found it. Serling faced challenges
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