Though, it wouldn’t have excused the most disgusting and pitiful actions taken by the Bryant family. As the town was known to be small, the incident was well known and talked upon by members of the community and family or occupants of the said store. It was on Friday August 26, Carolyn's husband Roy Bryant returned from Texas where he hauled shrimp from his trip. It was soon that a young black customer told Mr. Bryant what “the scene” was all about, and identified Emmett, who was the visiting teenager from Chicago, as the offender. Known back in that current time, he didn’t want to be labeled as a “weakling” or “coward”, he tried to seeing if he can get more information from his wife, but as she feigned ignorance, he was angered and angrily asked her to tell him her side of the story which is given later as a testimony in court. It was around Saturday August 27, Mr. Bryant planned a kidnapping of Emmett and to “teach him a lesson" with the assistance of his half-brother, John W. Milam, who agreed to …show more content…
No way. And I just wanted the world to see”, pointing out she wanted everyone to see what could happened to any black child that steps his or her boundaries which made civil right activism blow in proportion. After his burial, his grave have stayed undisturbed until being donated to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. Now with this acquired piece, people can now stop future visitors and make them think of the past and what we can do now to make history repeat itself. Hopefully with this whole situation, us humans now in the future can avoid this situation and not judge people and discriminate them because they are different. We are all human beings and with that claim, we should live together in harmony and not in