Emmett Till Murder Case

Emmett Till brutally murdered for wolf whistling at a white women. In the early morning hours of August 28, 1995, fourteen year old Emmett Till. Visiting from Chicago, was rousted from his bed in his uncle's Mississippi shack. By two white men in search of vengeance. His crime was for flirting with a white women. Three days later, his body was found in the Tallahatchie River dead. With his death a powerful, lasting symbol was born.

Emmett Till's case was one of the biggest cases and most influential case in American. As the newspapers stated, “A fourteen year old boy, Emmett Till, had been brutally murdered and his body was thrown in the Tallahatchie River, but despite clear evidence that 2 white men committed the crime, the crime an

“At 2:30 am, a green pickup truck pulled into the front of the Wrights home east of Money. When Wright went to door, the man identified as Roy Bryant and said he wanted to talk to “a fat boy” from Chicago. The men then charged through the house and dragged Emmett out of his bed and throw him in the back of the pick up”(Kinnon). After a day went by his family was worried, Then about three days later “a fisherman found Emmett's body in the Tallahatchie river with his face pounded in, his eye detached, his ear missing and had a wired cotton gin fan to his neck”(Larsson). Emmett's uncle was called to the scene to identify the body, when Mose Wright Emmett's uncle, identified the body as Emmett's then took the body and placed it in the casket and sent it to Chicago as Emmett's mother

Protest rallies, drawing thousands in some cases, were held in several cities. “In the south, the verdict seemed to spell the end to the system of "noblesse oblige"(Sewell). It marked the real beginning of the civil rights movement in that part of the country. About five months after the Emmett Till trial, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white person in the back of the bus. “Rosa Parks has said she was thinking of the Till case when she refused to move to the back of a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama”(Kinnon). The Emmett Till case did not only change the civil rights movements in the United states but it changed it throughout the whole