Key Events Of The Civil Rights Movement Essay

- Emmett was beaten, forced to carry a large metal fan, and shot through the head.

Roy Bryant and John Milam kidnapped and murdered Emmett Till in cold blood because he flirted with Bryant’s spouse 4 days earlier. The case being that Emmett Till was “brutally murdered for flirting with a white woman four days earlier” (“Aug 28, 1955: The Death of Emmett Till”) isn’t something you would hear much nowadays, but in 1955, it was unfortunately common. Curtis Jones watched Till flirt with Carolyn Bryant, the spouse of Rob Bryant. What started as a prank went terribly wrong. Not to mention that racism went into play, as Till, being a black kid trying to flirt with a white woman in the South, would never go freely.

On September 19, 1955 Emmett’s murder had became an outrage. Because blacks and women were not allowed to serve jury duty, Bryant and Milam were judged in front of an all white male jury. At the end of the case the two white men were found innocent. This really made a lot of chaos. To add to the madness, a couple months later they admitted the crime to Look magazine for four thousand dollars.

Slavery and Mississippi during the nineteenth and twentieth century went hand and hand. Along with this slavery came prejudice, bigots, racism, and perhaps the worst of all; lynching. Lynching was commonly accepted in the south during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Governors approved, sheriffs turned a blind eye, southern blacks accepted, and for the most part the rest of the United States ignored it. Lynching in the south was seen as check on society, not a criminal offence it helped keep 'those niggahs in order.' However, there was one lynching in the summer of 1955 that the nation could not ignore; the press, NAACP, and Mrs. (Mammie) Till Bradley made sure of this. The lynching sent shock waves through most of the

They made Emmett carry a 75 pound cotton gin fan beat him, gouged his eye out, shot him in the head and then tied the cotton gin fan to him with barbed wire and dumped him into the river. Also from history.com it states “His assailants-the white woman’s husband and her brother made Emmett carry a 75 pound cotton gin fan to the bank of Tallahatchie and ordered him to take off his clothes. The two men beat him nearly to death, gouged his eye out, shot him in the head, and then threw his body, tied to the cotton gin fan with barbed wire, into the river.” The body was found three days later but could only be identified by a ring that Emmett

Roy Bryant and J.W. half brother kidnapped and murdered Emmett Louis Till held a gun at headpoint at Emmett Louis Till shot him and then threw Emmett Louis Till’s body in the river in Money, Mississippi, on August 21, 1955. His body wasn’t found until August 31, 1955, was discovered in the river. The river that Emmett got dumped in the Tallahatchie River. Emmett Louis Till was just 14 years old when he got kidnapped and murdered by Roy Bryant and J.W. Bryant half brother when he got shot in the head at gunpoint, so that means he never went home with the things he got in the store when he fluted with that White woman it was over, because he was black and the woman was white they were different

By the time the trial commenced, on September 19, 1955, Emmett Till's murder had become a source of outrage and indignation throughout the country. Because blacks and women were barred from serving jury duty. Bryant and Milam were tried before and all white, all male jury. In an act of extraordinary bravery, Moses Wright took the stand and identified Bryant and Milam as Till's kidnappers and killers. At the time, it was almost unheard of for blacks to openly accuse white men and women in court, and by doing so, Wright put his own life in grave danger. Despite the overwhelming evidence of the defendant's’ guilt and widespread pleas for justice from outside Mississippi, on September 23, the panel of white male jurors acquitted Bryant and Milam of all charges. Their deliberations lasted a mere 67 minutes. Only a few months later, in January 1956, Bryant and Milam admitted to kidnapping and murdering Emmett Till. Protected by double jeopardy laws, they told the whole story about what happened and what they did to Emmett Louis Till. For admitting and telling the whole story for the magazine they both got paid 4,000

Emmett Louis Till was an 14 year old African-American boy who was lynched in Money, Mississippi after reportedly flirting or whistling with a Carolyn Bryant ( white woman). Days After the incident Carolyn husband and his brother J. W. Milam went to Emmett's uncle's house and abducted him. They took him away and beat and mutilated him before shooting him and sinking his body in the Tallahatchie River. Three days later, Emmett’s body was discovered and retrieved from the river. Emmett’s mother Mamie Carthan decided to have an open casket and public funeral to bring awareness and attention not only on American racism and the barbarism of lynching but also on the limitations and vulnerabilities of American democracy. In September 1955, Bryant

While Emmett was getting gum from the market, he was bragging to his friends about how he had a white girlfriend back in Chicago. Then as he went in the store and got some gum the lady behind the counter, Carolyn Bryant, accused Emmett for “whistling“ at her and saying “bye baby”. But when it all happened there was not a single witnesses there it was only emmett and Carolyn who were in the market and no one else. Despite the fact that she accused an innocent 14-year old boy for “whistling” and saying “bye baby” to her was terrible because of what she did she ended up getting an innocent teenager killed.

Being raised without a father due to him being mostly absent and then sentenced to death by execution by the U. S. Army in July 1945 for the rape of two women and the murder of another in Italy. Though even so, his mother continued raising him and thought that their life as how she said being, “as close to perfect as you could get”. Since childhood, Emmett was known to be suffering with short period of polio which left him a stuffer, though he still enjoyed his life as it was filled with friends. His mother even though that Emmett would probably become a good lawyer or politician as he "was always into something.", as how his mother’s stated what actives he done during his childhood. It was on the day of August 20, 1955, his mother Mamie put Emmett on a southbound train in Chicago’s Central Station for a planned two week stay with some relatives of his near the northern Mississippi town of Money. During his stay, Emmett sampled the life of being in Mississippi with his cousins during the first three days of his visits which were picking cotton, shooting off fireworks, stealing watermelon, which I find a bit redundant and insane, and also swimming in a snake-infested pond, which also makes me question how was he able to survive around the time period where there wasn’t much treatments for poisonous snake

Emmett’s mother was also called to the witness stand. She was asked if the photo of the brutally beaten and tortured boy that was pulled out of the river was her son, and she confirms with, “ A mother knows her child, has known him since he was born. I looked at the face very carefully...I just looked at it very carefully, and I was able to find out that it was my son, Emmett Louis Till.” Even with all the evidence that Bryant and Milam had done this awful murder of this young boy, at the end of the trial the jury and judge had acquitted both men. These two men had committed such a sick and disturbing crime, feel no remorse, and get away with it. This also shows racism, and the effects it had, If the trial had not took place in the south, with

In the novel, Mississippi Trial, 1955, the main character, Hiram Hillburn is visiting Greenwood, Mississippi when Emmett Till gets murdered. After his body is found in the Tallahatchie River, all of America’s attention is on Mississippi, courtesy of Emmett's mother blaming

Infuriated, Rob went to the home of Emmett’s great uncle, Mose Wright, with his brother in law J.W. Milan, in the early hours of August 28. Rob and J.W. demanded to see Emmett and Despite his uncle’s pleas, they forced Emmett into their car and kiddnapped him. They took Emmett to a toolhouse behind Milam’s residence, where they brutally beat and tortured Emmett for hours on end. Barely alive, they took Emmett to Tallahatchie River where they shot and disposed of his body. Emmett’s corpse was found three days later but was so disfigured that Mose Wright could only identify him by his initialed ring. Authorities wanted to bury the body quickly, but Emmett’s mother requested it to be sent back to Chicago. After seeing Emmett’s disfigured remains, Emmett’s mother, Mamie, decided to have an open casket funeral so all the world could see what the horrible, racist, murderers have done to her only child. Two weeks after Emmett’s body was buried, Milam and Bryant went on trial in a segregated courthouse in Sumner, Mississippi. The few witnesses they had identified the defendants as Emmett’s murderers, but on September 23, the all white jury ruled the verdict as “not guilty”. The jury’s reasoning was that the state has failed to prove the identity of the corpse. This outraged citizens nationwide, Emmett’s trial brought light to the brutality of the Jim Crow laws and ultimately sparked the civil rights movement.

The Civil Rights Movement had a lot going on between 1954 and 1964. While there were some successful aspects of the movement, there were some failures as well. The mixture of successes and failures led to the extension of the movement and eventually a more equal American society.

Even though Bryant and Milam admitted to killing Till, they were not punished for their crimes because of the jury that was sympathetic to the side of white supremacy. People were outraged that two men could commit such a cruel crime and get away with it, especially to a child. The lynching of Emmett Till and the publicity that followed shed light upon the unfair treatment of black people versus white people in America, as more people began to realize the injustice of the