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This 2.5-page paper examines the murder of Emmett Till and it served as a spark to the civil rights movement in the United States. There are 4 sources cited.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Emmett Till Research Compiled for The Paper
Store, Inc. by P. Giltman 10/2010 Please To summarize the short, tragic life of Mr. Emmett Till (1941-1955), this
was an African-American boy who was born in Chicago and went to visit some family members in Mississippi. He was caught "flirting" with a white woman (the exact details
are to a degree in doubt) and when the womans husband found out about it, he and a relative, J.W. Milan (his half-brother) beat Mr. Till to death. What is
known is that in the criminal trial that followed, the murderers were acquitted by an all-white jury (serious crimes committed by whites against blacks in the Deep South in those
days were almost always tried with an all-white jury with very rare convictions). Much later, Mr. Roy Bryant, the husband, admitted to the crime with his accomplice, Milan.
One of the important issues raised is that Mr. Emmett Till was unaware of the different social norms between his home town in Chicago, Illinois, and Mississippi, where "racial codes"
were enforced, often with violence, as in this case (National Archives, 2010). African Americans were (in the Deep South) expected to give their seat on a bus to a
white person, not to speak to whites unless spoken to (with the exception of raising one hat or nodding to show respect to a "superior"), and, of course, not making
any signs of sexual advancement towards a white woman. Lynchings, hangings and even burning the individual alive was the price sometimes paid to those who broke this unwritten code
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