This killing affected me deeply, even though I was a kid myself at the time. I was just a year younger than Emmett Till, a white girl growing up in the relatively safe area of Madison, Wisconsin, three hours north of Chicago, but my parents were liberal Democrats and our newspaper, then owned by a man who'd been a contemporary and friend of "Fighting Bob" LaFollete, splashed all of the story on the front pages. I thought Emmett's mother was incredibly brave, and I simply could not understand the whole ethos of Mississippi, then or now. I think that was the beginning of my awareness that things were not right in this country, even though my parents had been active in the anti-McCarthy movement several years previously.

These records should have been released a LONG time ago. I'm quite sure that J Edgar Hoover (Hi, Johnny, say hello to your new buddy Jim Dobson down there, won't you, while you're both roasting in Hell!) would NEVER, since he was such a self-hater. No idea why subsequent FBI directors wouldn't.

That little boy's murder triggered his parents to throw a ton of money at the NAACP and CR movement .. . making sure they could afford to do the work.

That could have been my dad or his brothers in Alabama.

He was a little boy.

And that fucking asshole *word not allowed at DU* Carolyn Bryant admitted she was a shift less, lazy liar was allowed to die in peace as opposed to prison even after she ADMITTED she was a trash liar.

accused young Mr. Till because she and her then boyfriend had sex or he raped her (i seem to remember she kept alternating between the two stories). She accused Emmitt Till because her boyfriend threatened to kill her if she told anyone they had had sex.
Someone correct me if I am wrong.

Nothing happened to her back then. She made it all up and when she owned up to her lie?

Got away with it again.
https://eji.org/news/emmett-till-accuser-admits-she-lied/

Still think those bastards should have gotten life.

A grown assed married woman.

She celebrated and laughed when her husband went free.

It's such a sad story, and horrifying for the family of Emmett Till. But the courage and determination of Emmett's mother Mamie Till-Mobley in demanding that his story be told, well ... that part is amazing.

May this country never forget what happened to Emmett Till. And may we always try to live together in peace and enlightenment.



Edit to add ... more info on this movie: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4960748/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_3

We don't have Netflix tho.

Certainly Gen Xers? We got this from our parents as part of the "talk".

are missing out on this and on the context of the times. Sadly, it's starting to return now, courtesy of the orange slime. I guess it's up to us old folks (God, I never thought, back in the day, that I'd be the one telling the stories!) to keep the context and the history alive as long as we can!

Maybe my ?late teens, or early 20's. I did start to pay attention the CR movement in my early teens as my mom up here in NYC in particular had pointed out to me racist behavior experienced by a neighbor mistakened to be Black.

The murder probably upset my parents at the time the news came out.