"Let the people see what they did to my boy." Those were the words spoken by Emmett Till's mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, after viewing the brutalized body of her son. In 1955 the murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till brought national attention to racial violence and injustice in Mississippi. This poignant case shocks America. While Emmett is with his loved ones in Mississippi, Till is going to the Bryant store with his cousins and is supposedly caught whistling at Carolyn Bryant. Her husband, Roy Bryant, and brother-in-law, J.J. W. Milam abduct and brutally murder him. Then they dumped the body in the Tallahatchie River. In Getting Away with Murder by Chris Crowe, Emmett Till is naive because he is a young innocent boy who has never experienced …show more content…
There's a pretty white woman in there in the sto.”
“Since you Chicago cats know so much about white girls, let's see you go in there and get a date with that girl.” (Crowe 51) Because he had been raised in the North, Emmett did not appreciate the seriousness of this Southern way, and at the time, standing there goofing off with his friends on that store’s front was the thing he thought was right. He ignored the warnings his mother had given him before he had left Chicago. All the boys, knowing the risks of talking to her or even making eye contact with her, knew that a date would not be possible.
In Getting Away with Murder by Chris Crowe, Emmett Till is a naive boy. Emmett showcases his naivety by his lack of knowledge and listening to his mother. This changes everyone's point of view on the law system and the United States of America. Without Emmett Till, there would be no civil rights movement. He may not be alive, but Emmett Till's legacy lives on. “A quiet snowglobe of pain I want to shake. While the flakes fall like ash we race the train to reach the place Emmett Till last whistled or smiled or did nothing.” ― Kevin