Emmett Till Trial: The Plessy V. Ferguson Case

The year was 1955 when fourteen year old Emmett Till was murdered in cold blood by Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam. Emmett was born on July 25, 1941 in Chicago, Illinois to Mamie and Louis Till. He was spending the summer in Money, Mississippi with his extended family after relentlessly begging his mother for hours on end, until she finally agreed to the proposition. Mamie warned Emmett to be careful of the way he acted in Mississippi, because she knew how racially segregated it was due to the Jim Crow laws that were passed in the south at the time. It all started three days after arriving in Money with his uncle Moses Wright and multiple cousins. Moses drove the boys and their friends to a grocery store owned by a young white couple by the

Polio is a virus that causes paralysis and muscle wasting resulting in slower growth, contaminated through food and water. The summer prior to Emmett’s vacation to Mississippi was the year the Supreme Court decided to desegregate schools based on the Plessy v. Ferguson case. The court’s ruling inflicted fear of racial marriages in white southerners. This was the cause of racial violence in the southern states (Gale, Thomson). The jury at the Emmett Till trial ruled that Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam were not guilty and were free to go, even after all the evidence and statements pointed to them, because of Carolyn’s testimony “acknowledgement” of what Emmett

The purpose of the bill is to make the deputy chief responsible for investigations and prosecutions on crime rights where violations occurred before 1970 resulting in death (Lewis, John). Till’s cousin, Simeon Wright, was interviewed in 2009 where he talked about what he saw in the store and on the night of the kidnapping. Years after Emmett was buried, his casket was dug up and moved into when the later decision of his cousin was to donate it to the Smithsonian Museum to keep Till alive in American history. The belief of Wright is that Emmett’s story will continue inspiring young generations 40 or 60 years from now to help one another better themselves and the world we live in (Callard, Abby). Wright was one of the main people from the beginning, his insight helps with understanding Emmett’s