Emmett Till Murder

Many real world events inspired authors, like Rod Serling, to write stories and make TV shows. Emmett Till’s story was definitely a huge event that Serling was eventually able to write about. Rod Serling was an author that would write about important topics to always tell us or warn us about something if we aren't careful. Like many authors, Rod Serling was influenced by bird and important real world events and by some experiences he had gone through. At first, he struggled with being censored, but turned to science fiction to tell meaningful stories about events, such as Emmett Till’s death, and also many controversial themes like paranoia in “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street.”

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.

“Emmett Till and I were about the same age. A week after he was murdered . . . I stood on the corner with a gang of boys, looking at pictures of him in the black newspapers and magazines. In one, he was laughing and happy. In the other, his head was swollen and bashed in, his eyes bulging out of their sockets and his mouth twisted and broken. His mother had done a bold thing. She refused to let him be buried until hundreds of thousands marched past his open casket in Chicago and looked down at his mutilated body. [I] felt a deep kinship to him when I learned he was born the same year and day I was. My father talked about it at night and dramatized the crime. I couldn’t get Emmett out of my mind”.—Muhammed Ali, boxer 13

Emmett Till was a loving, fun fourteen year old boy who grew up on the Southside of Chicago. During 1955, classrooms were segregated yet Till found a way to cope with the changes that was happening in the world. Looking forward to a visit with his cousins, Emmett was ecstatic and was not prepared for the level of segregation that would occur in Money, Mississippi when he arrived. Emmett was a big prankster, but his mother reminded him of his race and the differences that it caused. When Till arrived in Money, he joined in with his family and visited a local neighborhood store for a quick beverage. Upon arrival Emmett began to brag about how he had a Caucasian girlfriend back in Chicago. Knowing this was forbidden Emmett’s cousin listened in

Emmett Louis Till, also known as Bobo, was born to Louis and Mamie Till on July 25, 1941 in Chicago, Illinois. PBS writes, “He never knew his father, a soldier, who died during World War II.” For this reason, he often had to help take care of his mother which made him mature at a very young age. His cousin, Wheeler Parker, said, “He loved to tell jokes. He would pay people to tell him jokes.” No doubt, his uplifting and positive personality caused him to have many friends throughout his childhood.

In the last paragraph on pg. 220 of Anne Moody’s Coming of Age in Mississippi, she talks about her fears that she has encountered throughout her life. I chose this passage because I felt that it was relevant to the story, because she discussed some of her fears throughout the story and how she might have overcame them. Coming of Age in Mississippi is about the author’s own personal experiences and encounters as an African American girl growing up during the time of segregation and the pre Civil Rights movement. She has faced many hardships as a young child because she was African American, but the one that sort of lead her to fight for her rights, in my opinion, was the death of Emmett Till. “Emmett Till was a young African American boy, fourteen to be exact, and some white men murdered him.

In this PBS documentary, The murder of Emmett Till, Stan Nelson illustrates a racial hardship and crime against the African-American community. Lynching is a mob of Caucasian people that hang in African-American in a public place to show white supremacy. Emmett Tills murder trial was completely tried in a completely biased courtroom and there was even circumstantial evidence which places JW Millam and Roy Bryant kidnapping young Emmett Till, whose body was later found.I believe that in this murder and trial we see truly how far hatred and racism can rise by just one simple act. The murder of Emmett Till caused an uprise in the civil rights movement. Working Americans now knew that if there was going to change there would have to be a fight.

Emmett Till’s deformed body lead to a new idea. The new idea was like a spark to tinder. In 1955 in Leslie Millhams barn Emmett Till was dragged from a ford truck and the next thing a whip sound pierces the starry night. And a strangled cry from Till rings out from the barn. The men drag Till back to the truck and throws him into the bed of the truck and blood starts to trickle out of the bed of the truck. Emmett Till 's death impudent the civil rights movement by showing the world how cruel people were to African americans. Which caused people to fight for a change.

Emmett Till was born July 25, 1941 in Chicago, Illinois and was killed August 28, 1955 in Money, Mississippi at the age of 14. He suffered serious consequences for telling a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, “Bye Baby” leaving out of a local corner store. Several days later Emmett was taken from his home by Bryant’s husband Roy and his half-brother J. W. Milam, they beat and mutilated him before shooting him and sinking his body in the Tallahatchie River. Till’s body was

he young 14 yr old boy Emmett Till was murdered on August 28, 1955. He allegedly walked into a store and whistle at a white woman while her brother in law and husband were there with her. The boy was dared to go inside this store and whistle at her. Emmett till was from the north you were able to do that from where he came from. Emmett thought it would be all fun and games but the 2 men did not take it lightly. The 2 men

Emmett Till background inspired people to help other black people to live better. Emmett Till was born in Chicago on July 25 ,1941 , Emmett Till lived in middle class neighborhood . Emmett Till went to a school MC gosh grammar where he was the class clown. Emmett till was a hard working boy. Emmett Till work around the house while his mom go to work

According to “The Murder of Emmett Till” by David Robson, Mamie Carthan, later and better known as Mamie Till, was born in Webb, Mississippi and the only child to John and Alma Carthan (Robson, The Murder of Emmett Till). At the age of two Mamie’s father, John Carthan, alone moved to Argo, Illinois, which was an upcoming suburb of Chicago, in search for a job (Robson, The Murder of Emmett Till). A short time after John Carthan moved to Argo, Illinois, settled into a house, and local job at a corn refinery; at that point did Alma Carthan take their two year old daughter, Mamie, to Argo, Illinois to rejoin John and become a family again (Robson, The Murder of Emmett Till). At the age of eighteen, Mamie had done outstanding in her education, not

Before he left his mom said to stay out of trouble. So he goes to the counter to pay then his cousins dare him to flirt with the cashier so he does that. When they leave the husband of the cashier was going in and hears Emmett “wolf-whistle” at her. That night the husband and his half brother appear at Emmett’s cabin and kidnapped Till. They slashed one of his eyes out, tied a 100 pound cotton gin around his neck with barbed wire, then shot him in his head. The surprising thing is that both of his cousins witnessed his kidnapping. Some people found his dead body in a river all bloated up. When his mother found out she requested it be moved back up to chicago and have a open casket funeral to show the people what they did. The jury was a bunch of white people so they said that the body was planted in the river by the NAACP so that they can get the attention. Four months later the husband and half brother confess to a newspaper company called the “Look” so than they posted it. The all-white jury let them go but they went back to mississippi and got beaten and protested about because of

Emmett Till, a 14 year old African American boy, was brutally murdered for allegedly whistling at a white woman. Emmett Till was a lively teenager who was visiting his uncle and cousin in Money, Mississippi (1). Till was a happy child, and was a quite a prankster, however even if he was a troublemaker he was pretty responsible and very close to to his family. Emmett's uncle invited him to come visit relatives, but his mom was against the idea. Although Till was used to racism, he had no idea what happened as he walked into a grocery store with some friends, and the consequences that would follow. When Emmett apparently flirted with Carolyn Bryant, her husband and his half-brother assaulted Emmet in the night killing him, and getting away scott free from trial. Allegedly, friends influenced Emmet somehow in the flirting, but others think that since Emmett had Polio as a child he had a speech impediment and whistled to get over a stutter. Four days after he “whistled” at Carolyn her husband and half brother stormed Emmett’s house and dragged the boy from his bed. The two beat him beyond recognition, shot him in the head, and dumped his body in the river. Emmett’s body was found and recognized by a ring he wore and his assailant's were sent to trial. They got away free, but Emmett’s mom never stopped protesting against racism. Emmett Till, a