EmmettTill

==**Emmett Till    **== **__Thesis Statement:__** How did Emmett Till's murder help to influence the Civil Rights Movement? Link: [|Click here!]



 * ===Emmett was born near Chicago, Illinios on July 25th, 1941  ===
 * ===He went to visit family in Money, Mississippi in 1955 when he was 14  ===
 * ===<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 93, 0); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">They all went in to a store to get some candy and his cousin dared him to talk to the clerk, a white woman (Carolyn Bryant)  ===
 * ===<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 93, 0); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">He said, "Bye, baby" and whistled at her and they thought nothing of it  ===
 * ===<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 93, 0); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Three days passed and nothing happened until the fourth day  ===
 * ===<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 93, 0); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Roy Bryant, Carolyn's husband, found out and wanted to teach Emmett a lesson  ===
 * ===<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 93, 0); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Roy went with his half brother J. W. Milam to where Emmett was seeing and demanded to see him  ===
 * ===<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 93, 0); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">They kidnapped him and took him to the Tallahatchie River  ===
 * ===<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 93, 0); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">They beat him, shot him, and tied a 75 pound cotton gin around his neck with barbed wire  ===
 * ===<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 93, 0); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">His mother found out a couple hours later and asked them to send his body back to Chicago  ===
 * ===<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 93, 0); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">They refused at first, but then did with the box sealed shut and asked not to be open  ===
 * ===<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 93, 0); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Mamie, Emmett's mom, opened it and was shocked to see her son looking the way he did  ===
 * ===<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 93, 0); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">She had an open coffin funeral for him for three days so everyone could see what they had done to her son  ===

=== <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; color: rgb(14, 251, 33);">Before   <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; color: rgb(0, 255, 1);">After  ===