Transcript What Happened to Emmitt Till’s Killers

What Happened to Emmett Till’s
Killers
David Phillippe
Alex Frisina
Early Life
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Born July 25, 1941 in Chicago
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Born to Louis and Mamie Till
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Louis died in WWII
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Emmett “Bobo” Till
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All-Black middle class neighborhood
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All-Black Elementary School
Personality
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Infectious Personality
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Loved to tell jokes
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Paid to hear jokes
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Prankster
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Loved to mess with people
Mississippi Trip
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August 1955
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Emmett and cousin Wheeler
Parker went to Money, Mississippi
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Great Uncle Moses Wright
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Sharecropper and Minister
Mississippi Trip
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Mother told him to
“mind his manners”
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She knew the race
relations were
different in south
Lynching in the South
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Took the law in their
own hands
The Event
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Aug 24, 1955
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Bryant’s Grocery
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Candy and soda
Roy and Carolyn Bryant
Just some Bubble Gum
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“Bye Baby”
The Murder
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Aug 28 2:30am
 J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant
A Brutal Murder
Charges?
Aug 31
 The Decomposed Body is
found
Open Casket
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Thousands wait to see
The Trial
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Kidnapping and Murder
 Plea innocent
Moses Wright
 Accuses Milam and Bryant of
kidnapping Emmett
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Sept. 23
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Acquitted on murder charges
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67 minutes
Outraged U.S. and Europe
The Aftermath
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Offered money to tell the story
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Look Magazine
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$4,000 each
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Had to make an example of
him
Ostracized from white society
and forced to move away
Milam died from cancer in 1980
Bryant died from cancer in 1994
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Double Jeopardy