He was a very well mannered boy who attended a segregated elementary school, he enjoyed pulling pranks, he only had a ring that symbolized his father after he passed, he lived in a working-class neighborhood on the southside of Chicago, and his death is still referenced when other young black males are killed around the world innocently. Can you guess which African American male this is? It is, Emmett Till. His death was one of the most significant murders in history. He was a black minor who was discriminated by the color of his skin. His mother held an open casket funeral because she wanted to show the world how brutal his death was.
On August 24, 1955, Emmett was going to visit family down in Mississippi with his uncle. His mother warned
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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. Moses Wright reported Till's disappearance to the local authorities, and three days later, his corpse was pulled out of the river. Till's face was mutilated beyond recognition, and Wright only managed to positively identify him by the ring on his finger, engraved with his father's initials—"L.T." ” . This evidence is showing that Mr. Bryant and his brother-in-law, beat and shot Emmett until his face could not be identified. When the authorities found his body at the condition that Mr. Bryant and his brother in law had left him in, they wanted to bury his body immediately, but his mother wanted his body to be sent to Chicago. When she saw the conditions of his body, she wanted to have an open-casket funeral because she wanted everyone in her hometown to see what they had did to