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blackinperiodfilms · 1 year

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A Message from The Till Family

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a-moment-captured · 1 year

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The white woman who accused Emmett Till of making improper advances before he was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 has died in hospice care in Louisiana, a coroner's report shows. Carolyn Bryant Donham was 88.

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I don’t like to speak ill of the dead but this woman had a one way ticket straight to hell for what she did.

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titsbeauvillier · 1 year

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#emmett till #carolyn bryant #carolyn bryant donham #black lives matter #blm

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 9 months

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U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday will honor Emmett Till, the Black teenager whose 1955 killing helped galvanize the Civil Rights movement, and his mother with a national monument across two states.

Till, 14 and visiting from Chicago, was beaten, shot and mutilated in Money, Mississippi, on Aug. 28, 1955, four days after a 21-year-old white woman accused him of whistling at her. His body was dumped in a river.

The violent killing put a spotlight on the U.S. civil rights cause after his mother, Mamie Till-Bradley, held an open-casket funeral and a photo of her son's badly disfigured body appeared in Black media.

The national monument designation across 5.7 acres (2.3 hectares) and three sites marks a forceful new effort by the President to memorialize the country's bloody racial history even as Republicans in some states push limits on how that past is taught.

"America is changing, America is making progress," said the Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr., 84, a cousin of Till's who was with the boy on the night he was abducted at gunpoint from the relatives' house they were staying at in Mississippi.

"I've seen a lot of changes over the years and I try to tell young people that they happen, but they happen very slow," Parker said on Monday in a telephone interview as he traveled from Chicago to Washington to attend the signing ceremony at the White House as one of approximately 60 guests.

Tuesday marks the 82nd anniversary of Till's birth in 1941. One of the monument sites is the Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ in Chicago, where Till's funeral took place.

The other selected sites are in Mississippi: Graball Landing, close to where Till's body is believed to be have been recovered; and Tallahatchie County Second District Courthouse, where two white men who later confessed to Till's killing were acquitted by an all-white jury.

Signs erected at Graball Landing since 2008 to commemorate Till's killing have been repeatedly defaced by gunfire.

Now that site and the others will be considered federal property, receiving about $180,000 a year in funding from the National Park Service. Any future vandalism would be investigated by federal law enforcement rather than local police, according to Patrick Weems, executive director of the Emmett Till Interpretive Center in Sumner, Mississippi.

Other such monuments include the Grand Canyon, Statue of Liberty and the laboratory of inventor Thomas Edison.

Biden, an 80-year-old Democrat, will likely need strong support from Black voters to secure a second term in the 2024 presidential election.

He screened a film recounting the lynching, "Till," at the White House in February. Last March, he signed into law a bipartisan bill named for Till that for the first time made lynching a federal hate crime.

A Republican field led by former President Donald Trump has made conservative views on race and other contentious issues of history a part of their platform, including banning books and fighting efforts to teach school children accounts of the country's past that they regard as ideologically inflected or unpatriotic.

"This is an amazing, teachable moment to talk about the importance of this story as an American story that everybody can share in now, particularly at a time when people are trying to rewrite history," said Christopher Benson, president of the non-profit organization the Emmett Till & Mamie Till-Mobley Institute in Summit, Illinois.

“We have a memorial now that is not erasable. It can't be banned and it can't be censored, and we think that's a very important thing.”

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therrothekid · 7 months

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TILL A peice I made for the Emmett Till legacy foundation for the 68th Anniversary, an event celebrate the life and legacy of Emmett Till

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odinsblog · 1 year

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#emmett till #carolyn bryant donham #polls #tumblr polls #black history #carolyn bryant #white purity myth #defending guinevere

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rosethornewrites · 1 year

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I realized yesterday that some folks don’t know about the murder of Emmett Till and it blew my mind for several reasons.

First, I grew up in the 80s and 90s before media was self-censoring so as not to give folks the vapors.

At around 7-8 while learning about civil rights, our teacher showed the picture. It will never leave my mind, nor should it.

But in some ways it was a different era. If the OK City Bombing happened today, there’s no way the front page of a newspaper would be one huge image of a crying firefighter holding the lifeless and bloody body of an infant pulled from the rubble.

The media didn’t really sanitize back then and I’m not really sure when it started, but it certainly inhibits society’s interest in caring about stuff like that. My parents only realized how much I was taking in when I read an article about an absolutely horrid Metra accident in the early 90s at age 7-8 and asked them what decapitation meant—because they specified that victims had been decapitated in the newspaper articles.

I also grew up in Chicagoland, and since Till was a Chicagoan, it was well known here.

But I have a 14yo mixed-race relative who, until I mentioned it today, had no idea who Emmett Till was. After I mentioned it she went down the rabbit hole and was just appalled that she never learned of it in school.

It honestly just boggled my mind. What do they teach about civil rights in US schools now, anyway?

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nigmos · 9 months

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this made my heart really happy to hear because i think about how emmett till's current memorial is still attacked/defaced by white supremacists today.

it feels good to see that a national monument will be established and that emmett till's memory will be memorialized and protected on a national level.

#preservation of memory is important #remembrance is important #i feel a little teary 🥺#emmett till

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nyxelestia · 1 year

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Emmett Till’s accuser lived to 74 years older than Emmett Till himself ever got to be

For anyone who doesn’t know: Emmett Till was brutally beaten and murdered in 1955 because he wolf-whistled at a white woman, Carolyn Bryant Donham. His death galvanized the early days of the Civil Rights movement.

The murderers were acquitted by an all-white jury. While Donham claims that she hadn’t known what would happen to Till and had no part in his murder, she did testify in court that he also grabbed her and propositioned her — a testimony she later admitted was false. No one involved in his murder ever faced any justice for what they did to him. The murderers died in the 80s and 90s, but Bryant herself lived on until this week.

She died this week on April 25th, 2023.

Given that she was born on July 23rd, 1934, this means she lived to be 88 years, 9 months, and 2 days old. Had he not been murdered, Emmett Till, born July 25th, 1941, would have reached that exact age on April 27th, 2029 — four years from today on the dot.

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boricuacherry-blog · 6 months

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"He was really the best eyewitness that they found," David T. Beito, a historian at the University of Alabama who has written about the Till case, said Wednesday. "I don't want to diminish the role played by the other witnesses, but his act in some sense was the bravest act of them all. He had nothing to gain: he had no family ties to Emmett Till; he didn't know him. He was this 18-year-old kid who goes into this very hostile atmosphere."

The trial opened September 19, 1955. On September 23, the all-white jury, after deliberating for 67 minutes, acquitted both defendants.

Mr. Reed's testimony, Professor Beito said, was no less valuable for that.

"The prosecution - and this is not emphasized enough - was arguing a conspiracy case," he said. "They were arguing that more than two people were involved in the crime, that it wasn't just Milam and Bryant. And Reed's testimony was that it was a crowded pickup."

The other white men in the truck were believed to be cronies of Mr. Milam and Mr. Bryant, the black men employees of Mr. Milam who were forced to take part in the crime. None of the other men, black or white, was ever charged.

With the aid of T.R.M. Howard, a prominent local black doctor and civil rights advocate, Willie Reed was sent to Chicago, where he was given round-the-clock police protection at first. But the terrors of the crime and trial overtook him, and he was hospitalized with a nervous breakdown.

For years during their marriage, Mr. Louis suffered from nightmares, Juliet Louis told The Associated Press.

J.W. Milam died in 1980, Roy Bryant in 1994. In a 1956 article in Look magazine for which they were paid, the two men admitted to having murdered Till.

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newyorkthegoldenage · 8 months

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Mamie Till-Mobley, the mother of young Emmett Till, who was abducted, tortured, and lynched in Mississippi on August 28, 1955, addresses a crowd of 15,000 in Harlem later that year.

In her autobiography Death of Innocence: The Story Of The Hate Crime That Changed America, Till-Mobley wrote:

It is not that I dwell on the past. But the past shapes the way we are in the present and the way we will become what we are destined to become. It is only because I have finally understood the past, accepted it, embraced it, that I can fully live in the moment. And hardly a moment goes by when I don’t think about Emmett, and the lessons a son can teach a mother.

Photo: Grey Villet via Life magazine Instagram

#vintage New York #1950s #Grey Villet #Emmett Till #Mamie Till-Mobley #hate crime #racism #lynching #vintage Harlem

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reasonsforhope · 9 months

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"When President Joe Biden signed a proclamation Tuesday establishing a national monument honoring Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, it marked the fulfillment of a promise Till’s relatives made after his death 68 years ago.

The Black teenager from Chicago, whose abduction, torture and killing in Mississippi in 1955 helped propel the Civil Rights Movement, is now an American story, not just a civil rights story, said Till’s cousin the Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr.

“It has been quite a journey for me from the darkness to the light,” Parker said during a proclamation signing ceremony at the White House attended by dozens, including other family members, members of Congress and civil rights leaders.

“Back then in the darkness, I could never imagine the moment like this, standing in the light of wisdom, grace and deliverance,” he said.

With the stroke of Biden’s pen, the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument, located across three sites in two states, became federally-protected places. Before signing the proclamation, the president said he marvels at the courage of the Till family to “find faith and purpose in pain.”

“Today, on what would have been Emmett’s 82nd birthday, we add another chapter in the story of remembrance and healing,” Biden said...

On Tuesday, reaction poured in from other elected officials and from the civil rights organizing community. The Rev. Al Sharpton said the Till national monument designation tells him “that out of pain comes power.”

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jefferies said the monument “places the life and legacy of Emmett Till among our nation’s most treasured memorials.”

“Black history is American history,” he said in a written statement...

Till-Mobley demanded that Emmett’s mutilated remains be taken back to Chicago for a public, open casket funeral that was attended by tens of thousands of people. Graphic images taken of Emmett’s remains, sanctioned by his mother, were published by Jet magazine and fueled the Civil Rights Movement...

Altogether, the Till national monument will include 5.7 acres (2.3 hectares) of land and two historic buildings. The Mississippi sites are Graball Landing, the spot where Emmett’s body was pulled from the Tallahatchie River just outside of Glendora, Mississippi, and the Tallahatchie County Second District Courthouse in Sumner, Mississippi, where Emmett’s killers were tried...

The Illinois site is Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ in Chicago, where Emmett’s funeral was held in September 1955...

Mississippi state Sen. David Jordan, 90, was a freshman at Mississippi Valley State College in 1955 when he attended part of the trial of the two men charged with killing Emmett. As a state senator for the past 30 years, Jordan, who is Black, spearheaded fundraising for a statue of Emmett Till that was dedicated last year in Greenwood, Mississippi, a few miles from where the teenager was abducted.

On Tuesday, Jordan praised Biden for creating the Till national monument.

“It’s one of the greatest honors that a president could pay to a person, 14, who lost his life in Mississippi that’s created a movement that changed America,” Jordan told the AP."

-via AP, July 25, 2023