“Emmett Till was an African-American boy from Chicago, Illinois. His parents, Louis and Mamie Till split up a year after his birth” (Emmett Till). Emmett never met his father because after his parents split he left. When he was 14 Emmett was visiting some relatives in Money, Georgia. Emmett’s mother warned him that blacks are treated differently in the north then in the south. During his trip in Georgia he and some friends visited a store and as they left, Emmett reportedly whistled at the white store clerk. “When the clerk’s husband found out his and his half-brother kidnapped Emmett and brutally killed him. They gouged his eyes out and shot him in the head and nearly beat him to death. They then tied him to a cotton gin and through him down the Tallahatchie River” (Cobbins). Three days later his body was discovered and was so beat up that the only way they could tell in was Emmett was by a ring he was …show more content…
Tom Robinson was convicted of a crime he did not do just as Emmett Till was “Just shows you, that Robinson boy was legally married, they say he kept himself clean, went to church and all that, but when it comes down to the line the veneer’s mighty thin.” (Lee 275). Emmett and Tom both were well dressed and good people, doing the right thing, living their life, but because they were colored people did not treat them fairly. They were easy targets for people to pick on because no one would prove them innocent even if there is not enough or enough information. For example “Judge Taylor was polling the jury: ‘Guilty… guilty … guilty … guilty …’ I peeked at Jem: his hands were white from gripping the balcony rail, and his shoulders jerked as if each ‘guilty’ was a separate stab between them” (Lee 240). Tom Robinson’s case is very similar to Emmett Till’s case because they were both convicted of a crime they did not do and there punishment for the both of them was ultimately