Throughout the novel, the narrator makes it clear that the white citizens had such strong convictions against the African American population that they would do anything in their power to be separate and, in most cases, above them, which all led to the unfairness and bias case that was Emmett Till’s. Because of the like mindedness of white supremacy during these time period Till’s killers J.W Milam and Roy Bryant were found not guilty which although manifested in a more discrete way, still happens today. The Black Lives Matter movement which main purpose is to address and eradicate violence and systemic racism toward African Americans, which is something that even the earlier civil rights movements such as the African-American Civil Rights