Remembering Emmett Till: Born July 25, 1941

Emmett Till would have been 69 years old today.



"In August 1955, a fourteen-year-old black boy whistled at a white woman in a grocery store in Money, Mississippi. Emmett Till, a teen from Chicago, didn't understand that he had broken the unwritten laws of the Jim Crow South until three days later, when two white men dragged him from his bed in the dead of night, beat him brutally and then shot him in the head. Although his killers were arrested and charged with murder, they were both acquitted quickly by an all-white, all-male jury. Shortly afterwards, the defendants sold their story, including a detailed account of how they murdered Till, to a journalist. The murder and the trial horrified the nation and the world. Till's death was a spark that helped mobilize the civil rights movement. Three months after his body was pulled from the Tallahatchie River, the Montgomery bus boycott began."
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/till/filmmore/index.html

An American hero whose life is remembered today.

although there are numerous unsung heros who gave their life fighting for civil rights

I am choosing to commemorate him today.

Edit for clarity.

youthful body in it's beaten and broken state w/o any cosmetic touch-ups must have been tough and heart wrenching.RIP Mr Till.

:thumbsup:

What kind of "men" do something like this to a 14 year old child? :shrug: :cry:

Justice matters.

After he'd been tortured, killed and thrown into a lake, his mother made a point of having an open casket so that everyone could see the ugly face of American racism. I couldn't forget those images if I wanted to.