Alittle History For You....Who Was Emmett Till?

Question

Please no hateful comments, just want to know if people know who this person was. Look it up online, if you wish, best comment wins 10 points. :) Thanx in advance for your answers.

Answer 1

This was a horrible event in Mississippi's history. There are pictures online to substantiate the story, as his mother requested an open casket.


Emmett Louis "Bobo" Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was an African-American teenager from Chicago, Illinois who was brutally murdered in a region of Mississippi known as the Mississippi Delta in the small town of Money in Leflore County. His murder was one of the key events that energized the nascent American Civil Rights Movement. The main suspects for the crime--both white men--were acquitted, but later admitted to committing the crime. Till's mother had an open casket funeral to let everyone see how her son had been brutally killed.

Emmett Till was the son of Mamie Carthan Till (Bradley, Mobley) and Louis Till. His mother was born to John and Alma Carthan in the small Delta town of Webb, Mississippi. When she was two years old, her family moved to Illinois. Emmett's mother largely raised him on her own; she and Louis had separated in 1942. Emmett Till's father was drafted into the United States Army in 1943 during World War II, and was executed by the U.S. Army for raping two Italian women and murdering a third.

In 1955, Emmett was sent for a summer stay with his great uncle, Mose Wright, who lived in Money, Mississippi (a small town eight miles north of Greenwood).

Prior to his journey into the Delta, Emmett's mother cautioned him to "mind his manners" with white people. She told her boy not to fool with white people in Mississippi, "If you have to get on your knees and bow when a white person goes past, do it willingly."

Till's mother understood that race relations in Mississippi were very different from those in Chicago. In Mississippi, over 500 blacks had been lynched since 1882, and racially motivated murders were still not unfamiliar, especially in the Delta where Till was going to visit. Racial tensions were also on the rise after the United States Supreme Court's 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education to end segregation in schools.

Till arrived on August 21; on August 24, he joined other teenagers as they went to Bryant's Grocery and Meat Market to get some candy. The teens were children of sharecroppers and had been picking cotton all day. The market was owned by Roy Bryant and Carolyn Bryant, and mostly catered to the local sharecropper population. While in the store, Till allegedly whistled at, or openly flirted with, Carolyn Bryant and this action greatly angered her husband when he returned home several days later from an out-of-town trip.

Answer 2

Having had to write a 10 page report on this young man, i remember quite a lot about him, because the story touched my heart.

Emmett Till was a young man from Chicago. During the year of his death, he was probably around 14 years old. He was only in the predicament he was because he was going to visit his elderly uncle, he wasn't looking for any trouble . Why he was killed is extremely controversial. Many say that it is because he whistled at a store owner's wife. Others, like his mother and close relatives say that if he was whistling it was do to a speech impediment. His mother had been helping him pronounce words by whistling if he couldn't say the word right the first time he tried. She was told by 1 of Emmett's cousins that he was trying to ask for bubble gum. No one really knows what happened beside Emmett.

His death was not a lynching, it was in fact a brutal homicide. Emmett was dragged out of his Uncle's cabin in the early hours of the day, between dusk and dawn, when it was extremely dark out. He was taken by the store owner (whose name escapes me) and his brother-in-law (whose name also escapes me). They took him to a shed and began to beat him with their hands, feat, bats, guns, and anything else they could find. Finally, they shot him in the head with a shotgun. To dispose of the body, they tied a cotton gin fan to young Emmett's neck and through him in the River Delta.

Answer 3

I am old enough to remember when the Emmett Till incident happened. He was a young black man who was lynched in Mississippi (I think), supposedly for looking at a white woman. This happened during the early 60's.

Answer 4

Emmett Till was a black teenager who died in Mississippi. He was brutally murdered by two white men. The two men were acquitted, but later admitted that they committed the murder. Some say that this was one of the key events that sparked the American Civil Rights Movement

Answer 5

He was a young boy who was lynched for supposedly looking at a white woman the wrong way.

His lynching was perhaps the straw that broke the camel's back, and it's probably what led to the civil rights movement. After Till, people chose not to be intimidated and chose to take action instead.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Emmet Till was a black teenager who was arrested for whistling at a white woman. a mob broke into the jail and dragged him out and lynched him. this happened in the mid-1950's i believe.
good question. folks need reminded sometimes that we aren't always very nice to each other and maybe we could give kindness a try sometimes. (so i understate somethings sometimes)