Weeks after the funeral, Mamie traveled to Mississippi to testify against Emmett’s murderers, defying her own mother’s wishes. Emmett’s great-uncle, Moses Wright, testified too, identifying Bryant and Milam as the men who knocked on his door in the middle of the night. After the jur...
Another key witness was an 18-year-old sharecropper named Willie Reed, who said that on the morning after Emmett Till was abducted, he saw Emmett on a truck with six people: Roy Bryant, J.W. Milam, two other white men, and two Black men who worked for Milam. Soon after, Reed said...
Emmett Till: Guilty Or Murder? Emmett Till was a 14 year old African American boy, who was brutally murdered. Emmett grew up in Chicago. Then he went to visit family in Money, Mississippi. Emmett had polio growing up and when he got over it, he had a slight stutter for the rest of...
Milam kidnapped and murdered Emmett Till. A few days later, Till’s mutilated body was recovered from the Tallahatchie River and could only be recognized by his late father’s ring that was on his finger. The case was taken to court and the two men were not charged with any crimes. ...
In August 1955, a fourteen-year-old Chicago boy was murdered in Mississippi for having―supposedly―flirted with a white woman named Carolyn Bryant, who was working behind the counter of a store. Emmett was taken from the home of a relative later that night by white men; three days later...
Wright Thompson shows correspondent Jim Axelrod the inside of the barn where Emmett Till was murdered.CBS News The barn – owned by a man who let "Sunday Morning" visit, but didn't want to talk, and who is negotiating to sell it to Rev. Williams' non-profit – is where the parad...
Wright Thompson: It’s Roy Bryant, who’s Carolyn’s husband. Chris Hayes: Right. Wright Thompson: And his half-brother, J.W. Milam. Chris Hayes: So, they are the two men that stand trial and are acquitted. Wright Thompson: That’s right. ...
The Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act is in tribute to the 14-year-old boy brutally murdered in Mississippi in 1955 by two white men without either man facing conviction despite admitting to his murder. “Lynching is a longstanding and uniquely American weapon of racial terror that has for decades...
Emmett Till was an unfortunate example of what the world was like decades ago. The sad news is that such cases had to actually exist in order for the world to trigger a change. Emmett Till was lynched by a few white men after a white lady claimed that he whistled at her. His story...
there were Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, a pair of privileged, rich, successful young men who murdered a 14-year-old boy named Bobby Franks merely for the thrill and to see if they could pull it off. Dubbed the "crime of the century" in media outlets across the country, the story ...