Mississippi Trial Sparknotes

Title of Your Report Do you know the story of Emmett Till? Mississippi Trial, 1955 by Chris Crowe covers this story. The book is about a sixteen-year-old boy named Hiram Hillburn who was born in Greenwood, Mississippi with his grandparents. After the passing of his grandmother, Hiram and his parents move to Arizona, until Hiram has to go spend the summer with his grandfather because of some of his medical issues. On the train home Hiram meets Emmett Till, whom he will meet again, but when Hiram might have known something about the murder of Emmett he is determined to help bring any kind of justice he can to the case. Man vs Society is one of the main conflicts visited throughout the book, Mississippi Trial, 1955, by Chris Crowe, and this is

During the trial for the murder of Emmett Till several people were put on the witness stand, most of whom were black. The way in which the defense, the lawyer for Bryant and Milam, who murdered Emmett Till, spoke demeaningly to the witnesses was clearly racist. An example of what the lawyer said was, ""Chester when you first saw this body, did you recognize it? Was it Emmett Till?” … Did you determine the exact cause of death?” (Crowe 174). The way the lawyer spoke was clearly racist because he was insinuating that Chester was dumb, a common stereotype used against black people. He uses this demeaning language to his advantage in the courtroom to put holes in the case to help get Emmett Till’s murderers off scot

When it comes to people of color in the history of America and how they are treated and their perspective, there has been so little of that and people have gotten away with it in the past couple hundred years. In this scene Hiram and his grandfather are watching the jury be interviewed for the trial for Emmett Till and his murder, and Hiram asks why any women are not being interviewed, his grandpa tells him that women are not allowed to serve jury duty in the state of Mississippi. This quote takes place in the courtroom during the process of interviewing jury members for the trial for the murder of Emmett Till, Hiram’s grandpa said “You’ve got to be a registered voter … that’s just the way things are down here.” (Crowe 162). Black people at the time were not registered to vote, likely because they were intimidated by white people who wanted control over the politics of the US. One of the reasons the people who murdered Emmett Till got away was because the men on the jury were men like them, and unless there would have been more people who were of different races and genders there might have been some justice served to Emmett Till and his