but were said to be innocent. Later, the men were tried for murder and kidnapping but an all-white, male jury discharged them even after they admitted to kidnapping and murdering Emmett Till. At her son’s funeral on September 6, 1955 at The Burr Oak Cemetery, Mamie Till insisted on having an open casket service.The Emmett Till murder trial brought to light the brutality of Jim Crow segregation in the South and was an early motivation of the African American civil rights
Somewhere in history have you ever seen the story of Emmett Till? Emmett Till was a African-American boy who’s death shocked the world and had a impacted the Civil Rights Movement. I wanted to write an essay about Emmett Till, because if it wasn’t for him Rosa Parks would’ve never stood up to fight for justice. So that means that the Civil Rights Movement would’ve never happened and we will still have criticism going on in this world today. Now let me tell you Emmett Till’s story and how it changed
“We must impress upon our children that even when troubles rise to seven-point-one on life’s Richter scale, they must be anchored so deeply that, though they sway, they will not topple.” This quote was spoken by Mamie Till, the mother of a boy that was murdered after whistling at a white woman. Emmett Till, a Chicago native, was known kind and resourceful amongst his family and friends. He was brutally murdered by two white men when he was visiting his uncle and cousin in New Orleans. The murderers
then thrown into the Tallahatchie River with a 75-pound cotton gin fan tied to his neck with barbed wire to weigh him down. His body stayed in the river for three days until it was discovered and retrieved by two fishers. Till's body rests in Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Ill. The murder case was officially reopened in May of 2004, and as a part of the investigation, the body was exhumed so an autopsy could be performed. The body was reburied by the family in the same location later in that week. Till