Emmett Till monument sites preserve memory of murder that ignited civil rights movement
President Joe Biden has announced the creation of a national monument that honors Emmett Till, a Black teenager whose murder in Mississippi in shocked the nation and helped shape the civil rights movement.
The Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument is a collection of three sites in two states that are connected to Till's death. July 25 is the 82nd anniversary of Till’s birth.
The monument also acknowledges Till's mother, who kept the story of his murder in the public eye and insisted on an open-casket funeral that put Till's mutilated body on display.
"I think everybody needed to know what had happened to Emmett Till," she said.
Till, 14, from Chicago, was visiting relatives in Mississippi when he was abducted at gunpoint by two white men, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, on Aug. 28, , after Bryant's wife, Carolyn, accused him of whistling at her in the family store, Bryant's Grocery and Meat Market, in Money, Mississippi. The store is close to the monument sites but is not part of the new national monument.
Till's body was discovered in the Tallahatchie River three days later
Visiting the Emmett Till Memory Project Locations in Mississippi
In August of , fourteen-year-old Emmett Till arrived in the small town of Money, Mississippi to stay with his great uncle. Earlier that year, two NAACP workers had been murdered in nearby Belzoni while registering people to vote. School desegregation was also underway.
On the 24, Till and some friends went to Bryant&#;s Grocery and Meat Market for snacks where Till was accused of whistling at Carolyn Bryant, a white woman and the owner&#;s wife.
Four days later, Bryant&#;s husband Roy and his half-brother J. W. Milam kidnap Till in the middle of the night from his great uncle&#;s house. It was the last time Till was seen alive. The pair was arrested the next day on kidnapping charges. Till&#;s brutally beaten body was pulled from the Tallahatchie River two days later.
Till&#;s mother Mamie decides to have his funeral be open casket and the photographs were published in Jet Magazine, horrifying people across the nation. Bryant and Milam were indicted and their trial began in September. The all-white male jury found the men not guilty after deliberating for barely an hour. Many years later, Carolyn Bryant reca
The barn where Emmett Till was murdered
This is the barn where lynching victim Emmett Till was murdered.
It is located at Drew Ruleville Road in Drew, Mississippi.
Till was a year-old African American teenager from Chicago. During the summer of , he decided to visit some of his relatives in rural Mississippi.
Having grown up in Chicago, Till had little experience of the racial tensions and "unwritten rules" that existed in the Jim Crow-era South.
On August 24th, , he allegedly wolf-whistled at Carolyn Bryant, a white grocery store owner who operated Bryant's Grocery & Meat Market in Money, Mississippi.
Three days later, on August 27th, Carolyn's husband, Roy, learned about the alleged incident after he returned from a business trip.
Enraged that an African American teenager had whistled at his wife, he immediately began tracking down Till's whereabouts. After questioning several people, he learned that the boy was staying with relatives at the home of Mose Wright.
At some point between and a.m. on August 28th, , Roy and his half-brother, John William "J. W." Milam, drove to Wright's house with a pistol and abducted Till under gunpoint. Af
Although Till was likely killed in this barn, it remains one of the few sites in the Delta without any commemoration. Until now!
According to the so-called “confession” penned by journalist William Bradford Huie in the January 24, issue of LOOK Magazine, Emmett Till was beaten in a shed behind J.W. Milam’s house in Glendora, taken to a steep bank on River Road, shot in the head, and dumped into the Tallahatchie River weighted down by a pound blast wheel from a cotton gin. For decades, Huie’s account functioned as the definitive word on what happened to Emmett Till in his final hours.
We now know that Huie’s account was wrong. Till was tortured and killed in a seed barn on what was once the Milam Plantation.
Huie’s story leaves out the explosive eyewitness testimony of year-old Willie Reed, a black plantation worker walking to a local store early on Sunday morning, August Reed saw Milam’s Chevrolet pickup arrive on the Plantation with Emmett Till and two guards in its bed and four white men in its cab. Reed then heard screams coming from the plantation’s small seed barn, which was managed by Milam’s brother and Bryant’s half-brother, Leslie.
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