Emmett Till Research Paper
Emmett Till was a 14 year old African American boy who was brutally murdered by racists. Emmett Till was visiting relatives in Money, Mississippi, when he reportedly flirted with a white women at a grocery store (source 3). He grew up in Chicago in the North and wanted to visit his great uncle in the South, which had more racism than the North. Emmett’s mother did not want her only child to go, but she warned him when he went. While he was in Mississippi he went to a grocery store and flirted with a white woman, which was only him whistling to get over a speech disorder caused by polio. Emmett Till was killed by his assailants the white woman's husband and brother (source 1). After the event at the store, the white woman's husband, Roy Bryant,
and her brother, J.W. Milam, accused Emmett of flirting with the white woman. They kidnapped, beat, shot him in the head, tied him to a cotton gin fan, and threw him into the Tallahatchie River. White men viciously killed Emmett Till, a black teenager, whose murder helped speed up the civil rights movement.
Rod Serling hit many obstacles from censors and advertisers, who analyzed his writing. His work was “whittled down to avoid any controversy until little of the original text still existed” (5). Rod wanted to show his viewers what life was truly like, but the advertisers and censors forbid it. They did not want to offend anyone in Serling’s TV showings. Selring thought otherwise, and tried to disobey them. Rod Serling used science fiction in his own TV show, so he could show his anger and confusion with real life events. He “created moral and cautionary tales” (7), which both entertained and informed people. Science fiction was a style Serling could use to express his own way of writing. A TV show of his own was also a way for him to have independence while writing, and putting them together gave his viewers a whole new form of watching television.
and her brother, J.W. Milam, accused Emmett of flirting with the white woman. They kidnapped, beat, shot him in the head, tied him to a cotton gin fan, and threw him into the Tallahatchie River. White men viciously killed Emmett Till, a black teenager, whose murder helped speed up the civil rights movement.
Rod Serling hit many obstacles from censors and advertisers, who analyzed his writing. His work was “whittled down to avoid any controversy until little of the original text still existed” (5). Rod wanted to show his viewers what life was truly like, but the advertisers and censors forbid it. They did not want to offend anyone in Serling’s TV showings. Selring thought otherwise, and tried to disobey them. Rod Serling used science fiction in his own TV show, so he could show his anger and confusion with real life events. He “created moral and cautionary tales” (7), which both entertained and informed people. Science fiction was a style Serling could use to express his own way of writing. A TV show of his own was also a way for him to have independence while writing, and putting them together gave his viewers a whole new form of watching television.