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​ Biography of Emmett Till



History

Emmett Till was born July 25, 1941 in the state of Chicago,Ilinois.Emmet Till's mother was named Mamaie Till and his father was named Louis Till.Emmett's father wasnt really there in his life, They had separted in 1942. When Emmett was two years old his family moved to Ilinois. Emmett's father was drafted by the U.S. army. In 1943, while serving in Italy Emmet's father rapped two women and killed one. As a little boy, Emmett suffured from polio which left him with a persistant stutter.One day his mother sent him on a trip to Mississippi to visit his relatives and that day changed everybody lives which lead Emmett till  Before Death  August 19th:a day before mamie's son emmett Till leaves for the summer to stay with family in Mississippi she gives him a ring that belonged to his father. August 20th:Mamie rushes her son to the train station. August 21st:Emett arrives in Money Mississippi and stays with his great uncle "Moses Wright".Emmett joins a group of teenagers, seven boys and one girl, to go to a Meat Market. Emmett goes into the store to buy bubble gum. Some of the kids outside the store say they heard Emmett whistle at Carolyn Bryant. August 28: About 2:30 a.m., Roy Bryantt Carolyn's husband, and his half brother J. W. Milam, kidnap Emmett Till from his uncle's. Later on they take Emmett off and brutally beat him, taking him to the edge of the Tallahatchie River, shooting him in the head, fastening a large metal fan used for ginning cotton to his neck with barbed wire, and pushing the body into the river. August 29th: J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant are arrested on kidnapping chargesin connection with Emmett's dissappearance. August 31: Three days later, Emmett Till's decomposed corpse is pulled from Tallahatchie River in Mississippi. Moses Wright identifies the body from a ring with the initials L.T that his mother had given him earlier that month. September6th: Emmett's body is burried at Burr Oak Cemetery

 The Trial The kidnapping and murder trial of begins in Sumner, Mississippi. Jury selection begins and, with blacks and white women banned from serving, an all-white, 12-man jury made up of nine farmers, two carpenters and one insurance agent is selected.Mamie Till catches a flight to attend the trial.Judge Curtis Swangno reccesses on the decison that more witnesses need to be brought in.So he orders sharcroppers who saw J.W Milam's truck and overheard Emett gettin beaten.

September 21st Emetts Uncle does the unthinkable. He stands up on the witness stand points his finger and accuses the two white men of coming to his house and kidnapping Emmett.

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