What happened to Emmet Till?

By CarmenoInnocent

His early life

• Emmet Till was born on July 25, 1941 in Chicago Illinois • Because his dad was at war his mom was forced to

work long hours while Emmet was cleaning the house.• His mom said, ‘Emmett had all the house responsibility.

I mean everything was really on his shoulders…He told me if I would work, and make the money, he would take care of everything else. He cleaned, and he cooked quite a bit’(“Emmett Till Bio”).

How he ended up in Mississippi..

• He arrived on August 24, 1955 at age 14• After a hard days work on the field, he went to a

grocery store with a group of teens and bought some bubble gum(“Emmett Till Bio”).

•In August 1955 till's great uncle Moses Wright came from Mississippi to visit family in Chicago•Before Moses left Emmet begged his mom if he could go with him. She first said no but eventually she gave up

Moses Wright

Emmet's demise

• The teens with him reported he either whistled at, flirted with, or touched the hand of Carolyn Bryant… The white wife of the store owner.

• 2:30 in the morning on August 28, 1955. Roy Bryant, Carolyn's husband, and his half brother J.W. Milam kidnapped Till from Moses Wright’s home.

• They tied him up with Barbed wires, beat him with a gun, gouged out his eye, and blew his brains out…They then threw him into the Tallahatchie River, To get rid of evidence (“Emmett Till Bio”).

A.D.

• His body was soon found and sent to his mom in Chicago.

• His face was so messed up Moses was only able to tell it was him because of his signet ring he brought.

• His mom was devastated. She said, “let the world see what has happened, because there is no way I could describe this. And I needed somebody to help me tell what it was like”.

• 2 of the men were arrested, after confessing they were not found guilty("Emmett Till bio").

Reflection

• The Jim Crow Laws segregated blacks and whites leaving black with the hand-me-downs . This allowed whites to judge blacks in a derogatory way. This allowed whites to speculate.

• I organized it in Chronological order and put pictures so people can understand the themes better.

• What Interested me most was a similar event happened in July 17, 2001 a black 17 year old, Raynard Johnson was hung on a tree for whistling at a white woman (“Emmett Till”).

Work cited• "Emmett Till." Emmett Till. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Apr. 2013.

http://www.eastbuc.k12.ia.us/00_01/bh/et/et.htm• "Emmett Till Bio." Biography. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Apr. 2013.

http://www.biography.com/people/emmett-till-507515?page=1