Emmett Till was an African American boy who was described by his friends and family as someone who was outgoing and funny. He would tell jokes to others and brightened someone’s mood easily. Emmett Till was born in Chicago on July 25, 1941. His mother raised him because his father died before he was born. Emmett Till went to visit relatives in Money, Mississippi on August 20, 1955. He was staying with his uncle Moses Wright. After picking cotton with a group of friends, Emmett went to the grocery store to buy couple of things. Reports say he flirted with a white cashier at that grocery store on August 24. The woman’s husband and half brother kidnapped Emmett from his uncle’s house four days later. They beat him and shot him to death in the head. Emmett’s lifeless body was thrown in the river and his body was discovered three days later. Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam were accused of Emmett’s murder, but they were acquitted by a group of all white men jury. His murder sparked a massive outrage around the country.
One main character that stood out the most was Emmett’s mother Mamie Till. She never stopped speaking about her son. She never realized how much the civil rights issue in the South affected her much back in Chicago. She made Emmett’s funeral an open body casket. She wanted the world to see what the men …show more content…
It created a sentiment of abolition to stop racial inequality. One hundred days after his death, Rosa Parks refused to give up his seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She was arrested and later released. This caused the Montgomery Bus Boycott. African Americans did not take public transportation in Montgomery for a year. They carpooled or walked to wherever they needed to go. Nine years after that, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed. It outlawed discrimination based on race, religion, and gender. Emmett Till’s murder was the start of a continued fight for equality for