The Emmett Till murder trial brought to light the brutality of Jim Crow segregation in the South and was an early impetus of the civil rights movement. In 2017, Tim Tyson, author of the book The Blood of Emmett Till, revealed that Carolyn Bryant (later known as Carolyn Bryant Donham) reca...
The same day that Emmett Till was buried, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam were indicted on charges of kidnapping and murder. Their trial was held in the small Mississippi town of Sumner, billed as "a good place to raise a boy." The star witness was Emmett's late great-uncle, Mose Wright...
L to R: Walter Reed, Willie Reed, Mamie Till-Mobley, Michigan congressman Charles Diggs, T.R.M. Howard and Amanda Bradley appear in court during Emmett Till's murder trial.Bettmann / Getty Images
The all-white, all-male jury who acquitted his murderers drank Cokes to pass an hour before returning its predetermined verdict. A sign greeting visitors to Sumner, Mississippi, where the trial was held, boasted "A Good Place to Raise a Boy." Literary...
The Murder of Emmett Tillreports that Sheriff Strider habitually greeted the journalists and Rep. Diggs throughout the trial with a cheery, "Hi, niggers." The state's first witness was Moses Wright. Whitfield writes that he told the court how two men had come to his house early on that ...
Beauchamp now asserts that there were actually 10 people - several of them still alive - present at the murder." (25) At the trial Carolyn Bryant testified that Emmett Till had grabbed her hand, she pulled away, and he followed her behind the counter, clasped her waist, and, using ...
After learning of the horrific murder of her only child, Mrs. Till-Mobley demanded Emmett’s body be returned to Chicago. Her next request turned private grief into the grief of the nation. Knowing the powerful effect it would have, his mother insisted on an open-casket funeral for Emmett....
"Till" is the new film about the 1955 murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till - a crime that helped spark the civil rights movement. The movie has opened to rave reviews, and got us thinking about the October 24, 2004 "60 Minutes" report on Emmett Till's death from our late colleague Ed...