Argumentative Essay: The Murder Of Emmett Till
The Murder of Emmett Till
“It was down in Mississippi no so long ago, when a young boy from Chicago town stepped through a Southern door. This boy 's dreadful tragedy I can still remember well, the color of his skin was black and his name was Emmett Till”. On August 28th 1955, Emmett Till ,who was a young fourteen year old African American boy, was brutally beaten and then later murdered by two white men Roy Bryant and John William. After the young boy had died, the two men tied his body up to a seventy-five pound fan using a barbwire and threw him out into the Tallahatchie River so that the boy’s body would not float up. Even before Tills body was body was found in the River, the two men were arrested for kidnapping but were later released …show more content…
The woman who claimed that till whistled at her was Carolyn Bryant. In her courtroom testomony she claimed that Till grabbed her around the waist and propositioned her. She told her husband everything that had happened and he and his half brother went and kidnapped and murderedTill. In a later inteview they were asked that if they really had murdered Till or not and they proundly proclaimed that they did. “As long as I live and can do anything about it, niggers are gonna stay in their place,” (Milam). This statement reallydemonstarteds how some people viewed African American people and how they would not care about what they did to them because in their eyes the African Americans were meaningless. “That’ll teach teach them to with our women again, remember your place you nigger”. Some people actually took pride in what happened to Till because of the fear it caused the african americans. And it was true because of what had happened to Till a lot of people made their kids stay in doors and they even went as far as not wanting there kids to talk about the incidint because they did not want the same thing to happen to their own children. Even though some of the people in the african american community were worried and scared for their childrens and their own lifes other were willing to fight and stand up for their own
“It was down in Mississippi no so long ago, when a young boy from Chicago town stepped through a Southern door. This boy 's dreadful tragedy I can still remember well, the color of his skin was black and his name was Emmett Till”. On August 28th 1955, Emmett Till ,who was a young fourteen year old African American boy, was brutally beaten and then later murdered by two white men Roy Bryant and John William. After the young boy had died, the two men tied his body up to a seventy-five pound fan using a barbwire and threw him out into the Tallahatchie River so that the boy’s body would not float up. Even before Tills body was body was found in the River, the two men were arrested for kidnapping but were later released …show more content…
The woman who claimed that till whistled at her was Carolyn Bryant. In her courtroom testomony she claimed that Till grabbed her around the waist and propositioned her. She told her husband everything that had happened and he and his half brother went and kidnapped and murderedTill. In a later inteview they were asked that if they really had murdered Till or not and they proundly proclaimed that they did. “As long as I live and can do anything about it, niggers are gonna stay in their place,” (Milam). This statement reallydemonstarteds how some people viewed African American people and how they would not care about what they did to them because in their eyes the African Americans were meaningless. “That’ll teach teach them to with our women again, remember your place you nigger”. Some people actually took pride in what happened to Till because of the fear it caused the african americans. And it was true because of what had happened to Till a lot of people made their kids stay in doors and they even went as far as not wanting there kids to talk about the incidint because they did not want the same thing to happen to their own children. Even though some of the people in the african american community were worried and scared for their childrens and their own lifes other were willing to fight and stand up for their own