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Argumentative Essay On Emmett Tillman

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Emmett Till or Tillman will never be forgotten. Emmett Till was a little boy. Who was sent to Money, MS from Chicago, IL? To visit his relatives. His mother letting her only baby leave not knowing he wasn’t going to come back. He lived with his mother. His dad had got the Capital punishment in 1945. But his and his family's name will not be forgotten. Ever since I heard what happened to that little boy. I have been highly upset. He was only 14 years old. When Emmett was with his friends they stopped at the store. He was later on accused of whistling at a white woman. Who goes by the name of Carolyn Bryant. She was a cashier at a grocery store. In the store that her family's owned. About 4 days later, at around 2:30 in the morning. On August 28 he was kidnapped. Carolyn Bryant's husband Roy and his half-brother J.W. Milam …show more content…

They could have managed to let that slide. If they felt that it was a threat they could have talked to him in a calm way. How do they know if Carolyn wasn’t lying to them? After all, they weren’t there and you have no proof that he did what they say he did. If he was ‘White” they probably would have gone to his house in a calm way and address the situation. The situation could have been handled in a peaceful way. This just wasn’t hard for them it was hard for Emmett, his mother, and other African American kids. His mother and the enormous pain caused her to see her son’s dead body on display. She wanted an open-casket funeral to “let the world see what has happened, what you did to him. Because she had no way she could describe this. Plus, Roy and J.W. got paid $4,000 for telling the story of how they killed them. Even though they might try to say sorry. But it's too late for that because they can't give him back his life and even if they were to apologize to his mother. She still won't forget what they did to her son and it's off of what they did to

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