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The Murder of Emmett Louis Till On June 25, 1941, Emmett Louis Till was born, to Louis and Mamie Till. Emmett was the only child to Mamie and Louis Till. Emmett does not remember his father. Emmett’s dad is a private in the Army during World War II. Emmet’s parents get divorced in 1942. Three years later the family received news that he was executed while serving in Italy. Louis Till was executed to do willful misconduct ("Emmett Till."). While growing up in Chicago, Illinois Emmett’s nickname was Bobo. He went to an all-black school McCosh Grammar School for an education. He lived in a thriving, black neighborhood on the south side. Since Mamie Till was a hard working mother and often had twelve hour shifts. Emmett …show more content…

His great uncle was planning to take, Emmett’s cousin back to Mississippi to visit family down south. When Emmett found out about these plans, he wanted to go with them back to Mississippi. His mother did not want him to go to Mississippi. She wanted to go to Nebraska on a road trip. Emmett only fourteen at the time wanted to go visit family in Mississippi. He begged his mom to let him go, finally she said ok. August 20, 1955 he left for Mississippi. Mamie drove her only son to the train station that day and gave him a kiss goodbye, not knowing that would be the last day she would ever see her son again ("Emmett …show more content…

At 2 am that morning they found him at his uncle’s cabin. “Entering the cabin with flashlights and Colt 45 pistols, they carried Emmett away.” (Beauchamp) The night he was taken his cousin, Simeon Wright was in the same bed with him. His body was later found the next day by a seventeen year old boy named Floyd Hodges. Emmett had gotten shot in head above the right ear. He was beaten and then submerged in the Tallahatchie River. His killer or killers tied a cotton gin fan to his neck to keep him submerged in the water (Larsson). For the funeral the mother of Emmett wanted an open casket, so the world could see what had happen to her little boy. The sheriff from Mississippi strongly disagreed with having an open casket. Emmett’s mom fought the state authority to have her sons body shipped back to Chicago. Mississippi did not what an open casket, because it placed the state and the Jim Crow system of segregation on public display for the world to see (Kinnon). Eventually his body was shipped back to Chicago, to have an open casket funeral. Many people came to the funeral to see what had

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Four days after Till accused of doing that crime and he was kidnapped. He was kidnapped by Carolyn's husband Roy Bryant and his half brother J.W. Milam from Till’s uncles house. They beat Emmett tragically and shot him in the head. They drug Till to the bank of Tallahatchie River , tied his body with barbed wire and shoved his body into the water. From there his uncle noticed Emmetts disappearance and reported it to the police, and three days later his body was pulled out of the water.

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The white cashier he apparently flirted with was the wife of the owner of the store, Roy Bryant. Four days later Emmett Till was kidnapped from his home, beaten brutally, shot and left to rot in the Tallahatchie River. This left Emmett Till’s face unrecognizable. He was able to be recognized by the ring he was wearing engraved with his father’s initials. The people responsible for his death were Roy Bryant, the husband of the cashier and his half brother J.W. Milam.

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In August 1955, Emmett went down south to Money, Mississippi to visit family for the first time since he was nine years old. His mama tried to remind him of the different laws for blacks in the South but like most teenage boys, it went in one ear and out the other. A few days into his visit, Emmett entered the general store and innocently flirted with the clerk,Carolyn Bryant. A few days later two male members of the clerk's family kidnapped Emmett from his uncle house. They beat him, gouged out his eye, tied him to a cotton gin fan with barb wire and then threw him into the Tallahatchie river.

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Later that night, Roy Bryant and his brother in law went to his uncle's house unannounced, to have a “talk” with Emmett. But, they had kidnapped him and took him to the Milam’s residence and beat him. Then, they went down to Tallahatchie River where they threw his deformed body, tied to the cotton-gin fan with barbed wire. His body stayed at the bottom of the river for three days, until it was found. According to “ Emmett Till Biography” from biography.com, “ They then beat the teenager brutally, dragged him to the bank of the Tallahatchie River, shot him in the head, tied him with barbed wire to a large metal fan and shoved his mutilated body into the water.

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