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Getting Away With Murder By Chris Crowe

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"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

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A couple of days later, twenty-four year old Roy Bryant arrived back to his wife Carolyn. When he found out what happened, he was furious. His half brother J.W. Milam joined him and that night they drove to Emmett’s house. When Emmett’s uncle heard the knock on the door, he knew what was going to happen. Roy Bryant asked to see Emmett, took him into their car, drove off, and took him to a shed on a plantation.

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Emmett Till, a 14 year old African American boy who was brutally murdered by racists. He was a boy from Chicago who went to Money, Mississippi to visit family (source 1). Emmett had grown up in the North and his mother was Mamie Till Mobley. He was born July 25, 1941 in Chicago, Illinois. When Emmett was 5, he had polio.

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On August 28, 1955 Emmett was kidnapped in the middle of the night by Carolyn Bryant’s husband, Roy Bryant, and his half brother, J.W. Milam. The two men brutally beat, mutilated, and shot Emmett Till, and afterwards tied down his body and threw it into the Tallahatchie River,

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He was just a regular African-American teenage boy before he had his life brutally taken away by two white men based on a lie from a white woman saying that he “harassed” her. His death is, still to this day, very well-known due to his mother making the funeral not only public but open-casket as well. To show the world what those two men did to her son. This moment sparked a fire in many hearts, one such heart was Lisa Whittington. Whittington showed her support for Emmett Till’s story not just by talking, but by painting.

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Emmett was left mutilated and horrendous looking for all of the world to see when his mother decided to have an open-coffin funeral. News of Emmett’s story spread through the nation like a forest fire, outraging and devastating people all over, saying how brutal the murder was, or how it wasn’t brutal enough. Emmett’s trial took place less than 2 weeks after he’d been killed, and somehow his trial was more unfair than his death. During trial, Mr. Breland harassed Till’s Uncle Mose, “And yet you could see clearly, clearly enough to accuse to white men of murder, to claim that the men on your porch were Mr. Bryant and Mr. Milam over there… No problem with white folks, yet there you sit accusing two of our upstanding white citizens of barging into your home in the middle of the night, pointing a gun and a flashlight in your face, and hauling off your nephew”(170/171). Even though Bryant and Milam both admitted to kidnapping Emmett, the possibility of the two men not even being there to take Emmett is beyond irrational, even when both men stated their names at Moses 's door.

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