Research Paper On Emmett Till

Emmett Louis Till was brutally murdered after he whistled at a twenty-one year old white woman, named Carolyn Bryant in Bryant’s Grocery and Meat Market in Money, Mississippi. When Emmett Till was murdered it became the primary cause that sparked the Civil Rights Movement. The murder of Emmett Till can be viewed as culturally, politically, and socially and can be related to the murder of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and the aftermath protests that occurred.

On August 24, 1955 Emmett Louis Till was allegedly bragging to his friends that he had relationships with white girls and was dared to flirt with a white woman running into the store. According to published reports of ensuing events, Till went into the store, made some flirtatious

After Emmett Till’s funeral, Bryant and Milam were arrested and charged with murder. Their trial was heavy with racial tension. After deliberating for a little over an hour, an all-male, all-white jury found the defendants not guilty. (The-UXL). This outraged many African Americans predominantly in the South and served for a catalyst of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. The two white men later openly confessed to Emmett Till’s brutal murder knowing that they could not be tried for the same law according to the Constitution of the United States. The inequality that existed deep in the South and all around the world towards African Americans was about to come to an undeniable halt. This is because of the injustices and racial discrimination that were evident in the Emmett Till murder and aftermath of his trial. The political injustice would soon be served and never forgotten as the Civil Rights Movement

African Americans came together and formed organizations such as SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Council), led by Martin Luther King Jr. SNCC (Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee), led by Stokely Carmicheal. and many others such as NAACP, Black Muslims, and Black Panthers. Each organization had different leaders, beliefs, and ways of handling racial discrimination. But, the one thing they all had in common was the battle they were fighting; the fight for equality and justice among the African American race. This battle was being fought since the beginning of time when their ancestors served as slaves in cotton fields and worked for white families. It took the brutal and gruesome murder of Emmett Louis Till at the age of fourteen years old, for the people of America to realize what was happening to our country. Our country was becoming the opposite of everything we stand for, equality, freedom and justice among all race, religious beliefs, and freedom of speech. For social reasons, the murder of Emmett Till was the beginning of a movement that would go down in American history