Who Killed Emmett Till? BlogBook continues ...

Now working on a blogbook chapter of Who Killed Emmett Till? -- about Dr. T.R.M. Howard, the Rev. George Lee, Regional Council of Negro Leadership (RCNL) and White Citizens' Council -- next post.

I've got to work hard and fast because the anniversary of Emmett Till's death is tomorrow. At approximately 2 a.m. on the morning of August 28, 1955, this young Chicago school boy was kidnapped, tortured and killed in the Mississippi Delta.

He "didn't know the rules," a woman from Drew once explained to me.

Young Till, visiting his mother's relatives in the small cotton village of Money, Miss., angered the wife of a store owner -- certainly a Jim Crow taboo -- and paid the ultimate price.

Till was visiting Mississippi in difficult times and most likely had no idea he had pushed the Jim Crow limits when he bothered, perhaps even whistled at, Carolyn Bryant who was running the family grocery while her husband was out of town. Following Brown v. Topeka Board of Education, tempers were flaring and conflict had once again risen to a higher level.

This chapter will provide further context to the killing of 14-year-old Till. Continuing chapters will explain how and why Till's lynching helped launch the modern civil rights movement when Rosa Parks in Montgomery, Alabama decided to take her important stand, after hearing of the killing of Till.


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