Just finished the last post of my blog book, Who Killed Emmett Till?; ready to morph it into an e-book

Site where a service station was stood in Glendora, Mississippi. Clinton Melton, a black service station attendant and family man who was not part of the civil rights movement, was killed while working there, a month after the Milam/Bryant trial in nearby Sumner. Melton was shot to death by a friend of Milam's who was drunk and angry at the time. Melton's wife, Beulah, died when she reportedly drove her car off the road into a bayou. She had been trying to gather evidence for the murder trial. Photo by Susan Klopfer.

Epilogue


“There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings.”
William Hodding Carter, Jr., Mississippi newsman, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for civil rights reporting

“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
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IN MIDSUMMER 2009, a 40-second video clip circulated on the Internet of an Iranian girl, a philosophy student named “Neda,” the Farsi word for voice, allegedly shot dead by a Basij soldier.

She was on her way to a music lesson. Her violent death came as Iran faced demonstrations in the magnitude not seen since the 1979 Iranian Revolution.

Throughout the world, people watched the scene of a girl, with a single bullet wound in her chest, lying on her back as her family tried to unsuccessfully save her. Blood was leaving her chest, and later flowing from her mouth and nose as her face was eventually left covered in red. In a few moments, Neda was pronounced dead.

Something very similar happened across the planet in Mississippi back in 1971 at the end of spring when a young woman was shot to death in the streets of Drew, Mississippi as her friends looked on.

Jo Etha Collier, 18, was celebrating her high school graduation, drinking a pop with friends out in front of a small grocery store, when her life ended. Like Neda, she had only been an observer of the protests and clashes going on all around her as the modern civil rights movement progressed – or tried to.
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From Who Killed Emmett Till?
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