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The custom, Parks noted, about killings such as Till’s was “to keep such things covered up.” Despite all the attention to the case, on September 23, after only 67 minutes of jury deliberation, the all-white jury acquitted Bryant and Milam of the charges. Related primary source: Interview with Rosa Parks about the death of Emmett Till. Emmett Till, age fourteen, was brutally murdered on August 28, 1955, for allegedly whistling at a white woman in Money, Mississippi. An all-white jury acquitted his killers in September. The verdict aroused international protest. On November 27, 1955, Rosa Parks attended a rally at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church to hear Mississippi activist Dr. T On Nov. 27, 1955 Rosa Parks attended a packed mass meeting at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church to hear Dr. T. R. M. Howard speak. Howard was the lead organizer in the Emmett Till case, the 14-year-old Chicago boy who had been tortured and murdered near Money, Mississippi. One hundred days after Till’s murder, Rosa Parks, refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery city bus and was arrested for violating Alabama's bus segregation laws. Reverend Jesse Jackson told Vanity Fair (1988) that “Rosa said she thought about going to the back of the bus. Indeed, Rosa Parks was inspired, in part, by the Till murder to act against injustice when she made history on a bus in Montgomery just three months after his death. And, in the early 1960s, the lunch-counter protesters and freedom riders called themselves the “Emmett Till generation.” At the time, Parks led the youth division at the Montgomery branch of NAACP. She said her anger over the lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till and the failure to bring his killers to justice inspired her to make her historic stand. Four days before the incident, Parks attended a meeting where she learned of the acquittal of Till's murderers. Just four months after Till was murdered, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott that energized the movement. Years later, Jesse Jackson asked Parks why she refused to move to the back of the bus. Parks replied, “I thought of Emmett Till and I couldn’t go back.” Four days before she made her bus stand, Rosa Parks attended a packed mass meeting at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church to hear Dr. T.M. Howard speak. A key organizer around the Emmett Till case, Howard had helped locate witnesses, and Emmett’s mother Mamie Till had stayed at his house during the trial. Howard had come Yet Mamie Till-Mobley continued to fight. She became a leading light in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Both Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks said her actions influenced them. Rosa Parks told Mamie Till-Mobley that she thought of Emmett as she refused to give up her seat in a Montgomery bus. Only weeks later, Rosa Parks thought about young Emmett as she refused to move to the back of a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Five years later, Black students who called themselves "the Emmett Till generation" launched sit-in campaigns that turned the struggle for civil rights into a mass movement. Murder of Emmett Till. INTERVIEWER: HOW DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE EMMETT TILL CASE, MRS. PARKS? Rosa Parks: The murder of Emmett Till, I believe he was about 14 years old, who was visiting his relatives, his home was in Chicago and the news came that he had been brutally murdered and put into the river. But the difference in his case and the Emmett Till case was because Emmett Till came from the North and the media picked it up. In this case, however, of course, was kept very much Hidden, so that is why in, around Montgomery it was supposed to have been good race relations, quote unquote, because much of what was done to some families. As the Los Angeles Times later put it: “If Rosa Parks showed the potential of defiance, [some historians] say, Emmett Till’s death warned of a bleak future without it.” Emmett Till was a 14-year-old African American boy who was brutally murdered in Mississippi in 1955. His gruesome and publicized murder served as a catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement, a wave of protests, boycotts, and legal actions that aimed to achieve racial equality in the United States. Emmett Till and Rosa Parks are both substantial participants in the crossover from emergence to coalescence, but currently, due to the whitewashing of our history, Parks? protest is considered to be the facilitator of the Civil Rights Movement?s mass demonstrations. Till, on the other hand, did not protest, but The sign that is near where Emmett Till’s body was found has been vandalized repeatedly. Each time, the sign has been replaced by folks striving to preserve the memory of Emmett Till. One bullet-ridden sign is part of the Emmett Till & Mamie Till-Mobley: Let the World See touring exhibit. It is a powerful reminder that while Emmett’s story In order to better understand Rosa Parks, I first need to tell you about Emmett Till, a 14 year-old black boy who was visiting family in Money, a small town in Mississippi. The year was 1955. One day, while in town, Emmett spoke to the 21 year-old, white, married proprietor of a small grocery store in Money. We’re not sure, but he may have Later, she became very close friends with Mamie Till-Mobley, Emmett’s mother, who visited frequently when Mrs. Parks lived with me at The Mansion. Mrs. Parks and Mrs. Till-Mobley were tireless civil rights activists and the dearest of friends. Mrs. Till-Mobley always stayed in the Country Room when she visited. Years later, Rosa Parks Told Mamie Till that the photograph of Emmett’s disfigured face in the casket was set in her mind when she refused to give up her seat on the Montgomery bus.” -From, “The Assassination of Fred Hampton” By: Jeffrey Haas Funeral of Emmett Till Mamie Till (center) with other mourners at the funeral of her son, Emmett Till, in Burr Oak Cemetery, Alsip, Illinois, September 6, 1955. (more) Wright reported the kidnapping to the police, and Bryant and Milam were arrested the following day.
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