Aftermath Of Emmett Till's Death

Kendarius Steele

English Comp. II

Prof. Burnett

November 17, 2014

Aftermath of the Emmett Till’s death Emmett Till was a 14-year-old African American boy from Chicago visiting some family members in Money, Mississippi. The summer of 1955 was when he became another victim of racism that many believe sparked the Civil Rights Movement. A dare from his cousin, led him into a store to speak to a white woman which was ludicrous in Jim Crow’s south, but Emmett thought that white people in the south were the same as the ones up north. His alleged wolf whistle at Carolyn Bryant would help start a change of events that still until this day begs for justice. Emmett had already dated a white woman before and admitted it to both Bryant and Milam, which

Though Emmett Till was murdered only once, his body who never died rises marking the utility of the injured black body to American self-making and the ways this riddles and changed the shape of justice. After the original event of his murder, Till's body rose from the river bottom to prevent the killers' desire for his death to remain unknown. It rose again after that which became the centerpiece of the trial. It rose again when the court mandated undertaker intended on throwing the body into an unmarked grave in a field, which was prevented by Mamie Till. That demanded an open casket so that everyone can see what they have done to my boy. His burial is postponed until September 6, to allow additional time for the public to view Till's body. When his acquitted killers confessed in Look magazine that they had brutally beaten his body just so everybody can know what they stand. It rose once more still later when the civil rights movement raised Till’s body like a banner. For Dr. Howard and others, the immediate impact of the not guilty of Till's killers was increased repression in Mississippi. Still the momentum that followed Till's murder fed the next stage of the civil rights

When asked why she did it she replied “I thought of Emmett Till, and I just couldn’t go back.” A Baptist minister by the name of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would also hear the whistle of Emmett Till, and would lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott when he was twenty- six years old. Which would later lead a nation into a movement for change. Dr. King stated, that the “Till case served as an intimidation tactic to keep Black people away from the voting polls.” Emmett Till's death had a powerful effect on Mississippi civil rights activists. Medgar Evers, then an NAACP field officer in Jackson, Mississippi. Evers urged the NAACP national leadership to get involved, and along with NAACP field workers conducted a secret search for black witnesses willing to take the serious risk to come forward. Huge crowds descend on the Chicago funeral home, leaving in total shock of the results of the