Wednesday, January 24, 2007

wildwildclothing.com-The Murder of Emmett Till


In August 1955, a fourteen year old black boy whistled at a white woman in a grocery store in Money, Mississippi. Emmett Till, a teen from Chicago, had experienced segregation in his hometown, but he was unaccustomed to the severe segregation he encountered in Mississippi. That was until days later when he was abducted from his great-uncle’s cabin in Money, Mississippi, beaten and shot to death by two white men who threw the boy's mutilated body into the Tallahatchie River.
A few days later Emmett’s body was found and his mother, Mamie Till, had asked that her son’s body be shipped back to Chicago. She spoke out about Emmett’s brutal death and held an open-casket funeral so that the world could see what they did to her son. Emmett's face was battered beyond recognition and he had a bullet hole in his head. The body had decomposed after spending several days underwater.
Although his killers were arrested and charged with the murder, they were both acquitted quickly by an all-white, male jury. The murder of Emmett Till and the trial of his killers shocked the nation and the world. We at wildwildclothing.com would like to continue to keep this story and his remembrance alive as Emmett Till’s death became the motivation that set off the civil rights movement.

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