"Have you ever sent a loved son on vacation and had him returned to you in a pine box, so horribly battered and water-logged that someone needs to tell you this sickening sight is your son -- lynched?" -- Mamie Bradley, mother of Emmett Till--

In August 1955, a fourteen year old boy went to visit relatives near Money, Mississippi. Intelligent and bold, with a slight mischievous streak, Emmett Till had experienced segregation in his hometown of Chicago, but he was unaccustomed to the severe segregation he encountered in Mississippi. When he showed some local boys a picture of a white girl who was one of his friends back home and bragged that she was his girlfriend, one of them said, "Hey, there's a [white] girl in that store there. I bet you won't go in there and talk to her." [15] Emmett went in and bought some candy. As he left, he said "Bye baby" to Carolyn Bryant, the wife of the store owner.

Although they were worried at first about the incident, the boys soon forgot about it. A few days later, two men came to the cabin of Mose Wright, Emmett's uncle, in the middle of the night. Roy Bryant, the owner of the store, and J.W. Milam, his brother-in-law, drove off with Emmett. Three days later, Emmett Till's body was found in the Tallahatchie River. One eye was gouged out, and his crushed-in head had a bullet in it. The corpse was nearly unrecognizable; Mose Wright could only positively identify the body as Emmett's because it was wearing an initialed ring.

At first, local whites as well as blacks were horrified by the crime. Bryant and Milam were arrested for kidnapping even before Emmett's body was found, and no local white lawyers would take their case. Newspapers and white officials reported that all "decent" people were disgusted with the murder and proclaimed that "justice would be done

The Emmett Till case quickly attracted national attention. Mamie Bradley, Emmett's mother, asked that the body be shipped back to Chicago. When it arrived, she inspected it carefully to ensure that it really was her son. Then, she insisted on an open-casket funeral, so that "all the world [could] see what they did to my son." Over four days, thousands of people saw Emmett's body. Many more blacks across the country who might not have otherwise heard of the case were shocked by pictures of the that appeared in Jet magazine. These pictures moved blacks in a way that nothing else had. When the Cleveland Call and Post polled major black radio preachers around the country, it found that five of every six were preaching about Emmett Till, and half of them were demanding that "something be done in Mississippi now!"

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Im only hearing Audio and not sure if this is how it is supposed to play. It's an account (very moving) from his Mother, uncle and others close to the boy, surrounding the series of events.

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I know this is old news and happened yrs ago, but this story is incredible.

The two killers are now dead, and im certain, as the sun will shine tomorrow, their time has only just begun and its eternal. So help me God it's eternal.

Don't blame all whites for their actions. You wouldn't want whites doing the same to us, do you? Many of them label all of us as stupid, as murderers and rapists. Also you need to use periods in your sentences. They help a lot. And please don't think I'm trying to defend whites in anyway. I definitely don't agree with interracial relationships or anything. Just don't be like them.

my grand father had a black history book that i used to read when i stayed with him. along with pictures of lynchings the Till story was very touching and telling about what he and his generation had faced and those before him.

that was par the course up till the 60s.

my mom told me about two brothers that were gunned down by our town marshal in the 50's because they would not be quiet when he drove up to the juke joint. he shot them in cold blood and drove off and nothing was ever done about it. he was a feared white man until he died in the late 60s.

but we were also told of a black man they called "Peg Leg" Dave who killed a high sheriff on the parish and a deputy when he came home and found the deputy with his wife. Peg Leg held up in his home and shot it out with them. The sheriff got there and decided that he was bad enough to walk up on Peg Leg and get him to surrender. When he got within reach Peg Leg opened up with his double barrel and dropped the sheriff. i remembered hearing the story told in the barber shop many times when i was growing up by the old barbers as they reminessed as they cut our hair. they glowed when they talked about Peg Leg.

I mean you wouldn't want whites blaming all blacks for anything a few probably have done to them. Understand now?

Whites are some disgusting human being,and they have the nerve to call us animals.

What are you talking about? whites do that already, all it takes is for one black male to do anything that appears to be negative and the whole white media will jump on it and broadcast it all over the network and tarring all black males with the same brush.White people are nothing but devils i don't care what anybody says

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You know sometimes i know why AAs are so enraged...as a person of African origin you can just feel the pain go right through you...saw the documentary ages ago they bashed the face to smithereens they could have just shot him but the animals just wouldn't stop there...how are we supposed to forget this things and move on...on another level this happened in the UK just before you think sh*t don't stink here
Yep!!...they put a axe through his head for having a YT girlfriend in that town

BBC NEWS | England | Merseyside | Youth guilty of racist axe murder

Yeah i remember that one ,that was,nt too long ago either the young brotha was Anthony Walker just 18 years old ,and what was worse is that the parents wanted to forgive those white trash murdering assholes for petes sake.The last i heard was that one of the killers got his worthless ass beaten to a pulp in prison they should have killed the son of a bitch.Oh yeah and lets not forget about stephen lawrence whose killers were never sentenced ****ing white honky *******s make me sick.

I have a ? and please don't laugh at me, but what does YT mean?