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This site is dedicated to the memory of Emmett Louis Till, and seeks to educate people about his murder and the miscarriage of justice that followed.
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www.emmetttillmurder.com/
www.emmetttillmurder.com/
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This gruesome photo of Emmett Till helped spark the civil rights movement. It demonstrated the brutality of southern violence towards African-Americans, and created outrage across the nation. Emmett's mother, Mamie, insisted at his funeral that he be given an open-casket, so others could see what they had done to her boy.
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The murder of my son has shown me that what happens to any of us, anywhere in the world, had better be the business of us all." [20] Blacks, in the North as well as in the South, would not easily forget the murder of Emmett Till...
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It really wasn't until the photograph of Emit Till in his open casket was released that the genral public became truely aware of the brutality of the racial situation in the deep south. The Emit Till trial was when the mainstream press really began to seriously cover the civil rights movement ;
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Film: “Eyes on the Prize America at the Crossroads: The Emit Till case” ... Classroom instruction: The central focus of classroom discussion is on Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine the murder, racism and the segregated south. Armstrong Todd is fifteen, black and unused to the ways of the Deep South when his mother sends him...
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His mother, Mamie Till-Bradley, cautioned him "not to fool with white people down South." She said ... They were now charged with murder. The speed of the indictment surprised many. But white Mississippi officials and newspapers said that all "decent" people were outraged at what had happened and that justice would be done.
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www.africanaonline.com/emmett_till_the_case.htm
www.africanaonline.com/emmett_till_the_case.htm
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Learn more about the murder of Emmett Till; Soundprint Media Center's documentary "The Murder of Emmett Till"; (STREAMING, REAL AUDIO 2.0 or REAL AUDIO 1.0) ... In her autobiography, Anne Moody remembers some of the reactions (by Blacks and by white Southerners) following the Till murder:
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www.bobdylanroots.com/till.html
www.bobdylanroots.com/till.html
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In 1955, Jet magazine published photographs of the mutilated body of 14-year-old Chicago resident Emmett Till, who was brutally murdered in Mississippi. Many civil rights activists say seeing those pictures both haunted and inspired them. ... FBI May 2004 Press Release Seeking Information on the Emmett Till Murder...
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Soon after her story appeared in print, hundreds of people, most of them women, wrote to Betty and to local newspapers to say that while they didn't condone murder, they understood the fury that prompted it. "I believe every word Betty says--because I've been there," one woman wrote.
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