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    Emmett Till was a 14-year-old African American boy from Chicago who was visiting relatives in Money, Mississippi in the summer of 1955. While at a local grocery store, Emmett whistled at the white woman who owned the store, and she believed he was flirting or harassing her. A few nights later, her husband and brother-in-law kidnapped Emmett from his uncle's house, brutally beat him, gouged out his eyes, and shot him in the head before throwing his body in the Tallahatchie River. Emmett Till's brutal murder sparked the Civil Rights movement as his mother held an open casket funeral to show the world how black people were treated in the South

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    Emmett Till was a 14-year-old African American boy from Chicago who was visiting relatives in Money, Mississippi in the summer of 1955. While at a local grocery store, Emmett whistled at the white woman who owned the store, and she believed he was flirting or harassing her. A few nights later, her husband and brother-in-law kidnapped Emmett from his uncle's house, brutally beat him, gouged out his eyes, and shot him in the head before throwing his body in the Tallahatchie River. Emmett Till's brutal murder sparked the Civil Rights movement as his mother held an open casket funeral to show the world how black people were treated in the South

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    Emmett Till was a 14-year-old African American boy from Chicago who was visiting relatives in Money, Mississippi in the summer of 1955. While at a local grocery store, Emmett whistled at the white woman who owned the store, and she believed he was flirting or harassing her. A few nights later, her husband and brother-in-law kidnapped Emmett from his uncle's house, brutally beat him, gouged out his eyes, and shot him in the head before throwing his body in the Tallahatchie River. Emmett Till's brutal murder sparked the Civil Rights movement as his mother held an open casket funeral to show the world how black people were treated in the South

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    The Tragic Story of

    Emmett Till
    By Donovan Jenkins

    I can only imagine being a fourteen-year-old African American young man. Who went to

    Money, Mississippi to visit relatives to never return home again. Some ask, “What happened?”

    “Was he shot?,” “Did he drown?”, “Did he die of a terminal illness?.” None of the above

    happened. He was murdered by two white men for whistling at a white woman. Come with me

    as we explore an African American young man who came to visit Money, Mississippi, and was

    never able to visit anywhere else and how his death sparked the Civil Right Act.

    Emmett Louis Till was born on July 25, 1941, in Chicago, Illinois to Mamie Till. During the

    summer of 1955, Emmett Till was visiting some of his relatives in Money, Mississippi when he

    and his relatives had to run to their local grocery store. Emmett whistled aloud but it was to

    Carolyn Bryant (the white woman who owned the store) believed that Till was flirting or

    sexually harassing her. Her brother-in-law told her husband Roy Byrant what Emmett did. On

    August 28, 1955, the two men went to Emmett’s uncle's house, that is where was staying, and
    they kidnapped him. They beat him, gouged out his eyes, and shot him in the head. After they

    officially killed, they threw him in the Tallahatchie River. Emmett was officially killed.

    Emmett Till's death was one of the main things that sparked the Civil Right Movement. Emmett

    Till's mother would not let the two white men who murdered her son get away. During Emmett

    Till’s funeral, his mother demanded to have an open casket funeral, so people can see how white

    people treat black people in the south. Also, thousands of colored people came to Emmett Till’s

    funeral to give honor to his family. They marched and protested that this treatment towards black

    people must stop. So, when you ask yourself has Mississippi changed some will say yes some

    will say no, but I am a young 14-year-old black male I will say Mississippi has changed but we

    have a lot more work to do. Sometimes black people are not treated the same. Mississippians

    need to start loving different no matter what race they are.

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