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“The Murder of Emmett Till” by Subversive Historian Gabriel San Roman
Fifty-three years ago on this day in people’s history, a young African-American boy named Emmett Till was brutally murdered. On August 28th 1955, the young fourteen year old was kidnapped from his Uncle’s home in Money, Mississippi to be beaten, shot, and killed. Days early, Till, who was visiting from Chicago, walked into the local grocery store of the white couple Carolyn and Roy Bryant. Conflicting accounts say that Till either whistled or said “bye baby,” to Carolyn. News spread and alongside others, Roy Bryant and his half-brother murdered Till, tied a seventy-five pound cotton gin fan around the boy’s neck with barbed wire, and dumped his body into the Tallahatchie River. The main suspects in the murder were acquitted but later confessed for $4,000.
Emmett Till’s mother bravely fought to have an open casket funeral so that all could see what race hatred had done to her son.
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