httpss://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKsk5HNvFpE
14 year old Emmett Till, doing as black children from Chicago often did during the summer, was down South visiting his extended family in Mississippi.
In the shadows of Smith’s murder, Emmett Till himself was kidnapped, tortured, mutilated, shot to death, then weighed down and dumped him in the Tallahatchie River.
For the past six decades, every single account of why Till was lynched was always centered around some version of him sexually harassing a 21-year-old white woman named Carolyn Bryant, wife of Roy Bryant, in a local convenience store.
Emmett Till accuser admits she fabricated trial testimony.
The Till family, many whom I’ve come to know over the past few years, is still very actively affected by what happened to Emmett all those years ago.
Emmett Till was not lynched because he sexually harassed Carolyn Bryant or whistled at her.