Emmit Till’s Murder


I can remember the very first time I read the article out of JET magazine about the murder Emmit Till. The story brought tears to my eyes. I remember feeling the emotions of anger and disbelief. Emmit was accused of whistling at a white woman in the grocery store in Grenada, MS.
Later on that same day he was then kidnapped by the store owner and his brother.
He was then beaten to death and then tied to a large cotton gin fan with barbed wire and thrown into the Tallahatchie River. a month after his mutilated body was pulled out of the Tallahatchie River, his wrists broken, teeth and eyes missing, and a bullet wound in his skull. Any one with a hurt would want to know who could do such a thing to a child. Roy Byrant and J.W. Milam are the men guilty of shedding innocent blood. Neither one ever spent a night in jail in connection with the crime. They both died of cancer: Milam in 1981, Bryant in 1994.