The Untold Story Of Emmett Till Analysis

Life in the past of America was not easy for African Americans. From the early 1600s, until the 1960s, African Americans have been treated as less than equal. In the late 1800s, an era is known as the “Jim Crow Era” began, bringing with it many unjust laws that made life even more difficult for African Americans. African Americans faced many hardships such as segregation, murder, and frightening threats. African Americans were segregated, which means to be purposely discriminated. This kind of prejudice was common, but still very unjust. In the cases of the Jim Crow laws, this kind of injustice was discussed in the documentary, The Untold Story of Emmett Luis Till. The documentary brought forth horrible stories that African Americans faced

Any time African Americans did something those who opposed them saw as out of line, or there may have been no real reason besides the color of their skin, deadly threats were common. This is evidenced in the documentary by presenting the case of Mamie Till. Mamie Till was the mother of the previously mentioned child, Emmett Till. Mamie Till received death threats for taking the men who murdered her son to court. (The Untold Story of Emmett Till). Although she was only trying to get justice for her son, she was targeted and threatened. Also, the previously mentioned civil rights workers from the End of Freedom School Article faced the hardship of being threatened as well. The article states, “Schwerner, a 24-year-old social worker from New York City, had worked in Meridian for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) since January and had become accustomed to threats” (The End of Freedom School). Because of Schwerner’s association with civil rights, he made himself a target to deadly threats. Chaney, one of the other civil rights workers, who was African American, died alongside Schwerner for simply trying to better the lives of other African