Blog 4

Blog 4 Emmet Till

The Emmet Till court case was about a young 13-year-old African American teenager, who had left his home in Chicago to go to visit his cousin in Money Mississippi. The young boy was with his cousin and some other friends out front of a store, when one of the boys dared him to go into the store they were standing in front of and talk to the white girl that was in there. Emmett Till went into the store and found the girl, and as she was leaving Emmitt said “Bye baby” to the white girl. Later that night while he was in bed at his cousin’s house, two white men came to the door and knocked. They had a flashlight in one hand and a pistol in the other. They took young emit till from the house and put him in their truck and took him to a river. They brutally beat him, shot him in the head, tied him to a cotton jinn, and submerged him, dead into the river.  The boy was found and the two men were brought back to Chicago and tried. An ALL WHITE JUREY found them NOT guilty. The men 5 years later were paid money by a reporter to tell the truth about what happened, and essentially admitted to what they had done. Atticus plays a big roll  in to kill a mocking bird by being an African Americans lawyer. He was being tried for raping a white girl, an act of crime that he had not committed.  This was looked down upon, because the man (Tom Robinson) was black, and a white man (Atticus) was being his lawyer in the case Atticus came through in this case and won the black man his freedom back. This should have been the case with emit till but it wasn’t.  the white jury found the white men not guilty.  The emit till case showed social injustice back then, and it is such a good thing that it is not around any more, and if it is its very minimal.

Kyle miller