Emmett Till's Second Trial

Emmett Till was a 14-year-old, African-American boy who was brutally murdered. Emmett Till was visiting realities in Money, Mississippi, and went into a small store, but no one saw what really happened. Carolyn (store owner) said he wolf-whistled at her. Carolyn was insulted and told her husband. Roy Bryant was furious.

She now completely regrets what she had done and thinks what happened to him wasn’t deserved. She is now happy that white supremacy is over, but that was how it was back then. Bryant was then put to jury, but was not charged. Segall, Rebecca and David Holmberg. "Who Killed Emmett Till?.

Emmett Till, a 14 year old African American boy who was brutally murdered by racists. He was a boy from Chicago who went to Money, Mississippi to visit family (source 1). Emmett had grown up in the North and his mother was Mamie Till Mobley. He was born July 25, 1941 in Chicago, Illinois. When Emmett was 5, he had polio.

Emmett Louis Till, nicknamed Bobo, was born on July 25, 1941, in Chicago, Illinois. Till was raised by his single mother, Mamie Till, and never knew his father, due to the couple’s separation and his father’s untimely death by execution. At the age of 5, Emmett caught a severe case of polio but made a full recovery, leaving him with a somewhat noticeable stutter. Growing up, he spent the majority of his days taking care of the house while his mother worked long hours balancing two jobs. He attended the all-black school of McCosh Grammar School.

“I say to you, gentlemen, your forefathers will absolutely turn over in their graves if you don’t set these boys loose. ”(191)These were the last words spoken to the Jury during the trial of the Murder of Emmett Till as told in Chris Crowe’s, Mississippi Trial, 1955. How could the prosecution have lost in a case so black and white? The only thing I can think of that would cause the Jury to acquit the defendants is a lapse in judgement. The prosecution should have won because the defense lacked in evidence, they had eyewitness accounts, and Bryant and Milam confessed.

August 19, 1955 was a day that Mamie Till Mobley will never forget, it was the last day that she would ever see her son, Emmett Till, alive. Only 5 days later, he was in Mississippi visiting his uncle, Moses Wright, and cousins. Being from the north, Emmett was not used to the racist south, and he did not know what was and was not permitted. He and some of his friends went to Bryant’s Grocery and Meat Market, to buy drinks after working in the fields earlier that day. According to the video on biography.com, while in the store Emmett whistled at, Carolyn Bryant, the wife of the store owner.

In September of 1955, in Sumner, Mississippi, the trial of Roy Bryant and his half-brother, J.W. Milam, took place. Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam were indicted for murder in connection with the kidnapping and killing of 14-year-old Emmett Till. Emmett Till’s murder has become one of the most well-known murders that took place in the south during the 1950s. Even the general secretary of the Citizens' Councils of Mississippi, Robert Patterson, called the murder "very regrettable”. A Death in the Delta mentioned white storekeepers setting out jars on their counters for contributions to aid them an attorney, which soon totaled to almost $10,000.

Although there are doubts about who was involved in Emmett Till’s death, the only perpetrators that were tried in court were Roy Bryant, and J.W Milam (Anderson). August 28, 1955 was the day Till was kidnapped and murdered (Emmett Till Biography). Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam went in Mose Wright`s house and demanded the Chicago nigger (Linder).Till was wake up out of his sleep to be dragged to the back of a pickup truck (Linder). He was shot in the right ear, beat with a 45. Colt, and had a gin fan wrapped around his neck with barbed wire (Huie).

Little did he know this would be the last time he would see his mom. Emmett Louis Till was born July 25, 1955 in Chicago, Illinois. Emmett was born in thriving black middle class neighborhood on Chicago's South side. Emmett was stricken with Polio at age five but made a full recovery except for a slight stutter. Emmett was better known as Bobo to his classmates at McCosh grammar school which was the only education he ever had.

At the trial for who killed Emmett Till, “The witnesses identified the perpetrators, but the jury acquitted the white men”(Majerol 1). The quotes say that witnesses identified that the white men killed Emmett Till but they were acquitted. These two quotes prove that black people have a worse trial than white people. Tom Robinson, a black man, was guilty but he didn’t do any crime. Meanwhile, two white men who clearly killed Emmett Till were set free.

Less than two weeks after he was buried, Roy and Bryant went to trail in a segregated courthouse in Summer, Mississippi for the murder of Emmett Till. There were witness beside Mose Wright At the time in the south, you couldn’t get in trouble for killing a black person with murdering a black person was not illegal, so on September 23, they were found not guilty for killing Emmett. They didn’t show any remorse but justification to say what they did to him, like he got what he deserved “ Overall they were charged with kidnapping, people all over was so offend and

Till was born in 1941, and grew up in a working-class neighborhood on the south side of Chicago, His parents were Mamie Carthan and Louis Till His mom was born in a very small town Webb Mississippi this was also one of the most poorest states in the 1950’s (1). Emmett Till didn’t have the best life at home. His mom Mamie raised Emmett. She and Louis Till separated in 1942 after she discovered that he had been unfaithful. Louis began abusing her and choked her to unconsciousness, causing her to throw scalding water at him.

There are many things that are memorable in everyone’s lives. Things that run constantly in our heads, or the simplest things that make us remember that special event that has occurred. In the case of the book A Death in the Delta, Emmett Till faces many disadvantages due to his race. He is a young adolescence that goes down to visit his cousins, and ends up killed. Emmett Till’s story impacted many people’s lives that are memorable today.

”In our courts, when its a white man’s word against the black man’s the white man always wins” (pg.251-252). In this quote it also shows that even if the black man is innocent he will always be guilty due to the fact that he is of color. The trial with Tom is an accurate example of hoew people of color were treated back

“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.