Remembering Emmett Louis Till
Sep 14, 2022 11:42pm EST/NYC Updated: Sep 15, 2022
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Honor and Remember Mr. Emmett Louis Till
Event Type:
Community and Culture, Education, Government and Politics, Remembrance
WHEN: July 25 and/or August 28, ANNUALLY
WHERE:Check your local area for memorial events near you.
Mr. Emmett Louis "Bobo" Till was born on July 25, 1941, and brutally murdered on August 28, 1955, at 14-year-old. Mr. Till's barbaric, inhumane and savage murderers were never brought to justice.
We will never know what would have become the bubbly child from the South Side of Chicago, as he was never allowed to dream, nor live, nor smile again. Smiling without fear of others was his crime.
Emmett Till is murdered
On August 28, 1955, while visiting family in Money, Mississippi, 14-year-old Emmett Till, an African American from Chicago, is brutally murdered for
allegedly flirting with a white woman four days earlier[for being a black boy in Mississippi].
We are NOT repeating the Carolyn Bryant Donham, Roy Bryant and JW Milam lie, as NOTHING a confederate or kkk says is true! Emmett Louis Till was killed for knowing that he was a human being, killed for being a black boy who did NOT have to worship the stank, foul ground of confederate low-lifes. It is unfortunate that his mother sent him to the south during Jim Crow, versus sending for his cousins to travel north, and stay. But Emmett had the love of his Mississippi family, while not having the commerce protection to shop without being stared at by a lying witch, who was placed on a stank klan pedestal of filth and degradation.
However, Emmett served a higher purpose: to expose the xenophobic and white supremacy filth that infested Mississippi. The whole world was exposed to the hatred of confederates, kkk and ⬜ trash. Emmett now lives in eternal honor, and in the hearts of millions, with love and reverence, while his murderers, the jurors, Clarence Strider and the presiding judge are forever known as despicable, disgusting and sickening persons, stains on American AND white conservative history, and the epitome of pure evil.
When One Mother Defied America: The Photo That Changed the Civil Rights Movement
In August 1955, Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago, was visiting relatives in Mississippi when he stopped at Bryant's Grocery and Meat Market. There he encountered Carolyn Bryant, a white woman. Whether Till really flirted with Bryant or whistled at her isn't known. But what happened four days later is. Bryant's husband Roy and his half brother, J.W. Milam, seized the 14-year-old from his great-uncle's house. The pair then beat Till, shot him, and strung barbed wire and a 75-pound metal fan around his neck and dumped the lifeless body in the Tallahatchie River. A white jury quickly acquitted the men, with one juror saying it had taken so long only because they had to break to drink some pop.
He Called for His Mother
Mamie Till-Mobley was one of the first in a far-too-long line of Black mothers to seek justice for their sons.
Emmett Till's Original Casket Donated to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture
"We are both honored and humbled that the Till family has entrusted this sacred object to the museum for preservation and safekeeping," said Lonnie G. Bunch III, director of the museum. "The death of Emmett Till shocked the conscience of the world and fueled the civil rights movement. It is our duty to ensure that this iconic artifact is preserved so that we will never forget."
Simeon Wright, 66, who was with his cousin Till on the night of the murder, led the family's efforts to donate the casket. "If we didn't have this casket, no one would ever believe this could happen in America," Wright said. "Some people would say this is just a wooden box, scuffed up on the outside and stained on the inside. But this very particular box tells a story, lots of stories. And by sending it to the Smithsonian's African American museum we—Emmett's few remaining relatives—are doing what we can to make sure those stories get told long after we're gone."
Viewing: Mr. Emmett Louis Till