The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till

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Aug 30, 2020 What did I think of The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till? Check out my full review below: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2qHfZ7ckMSaXfw6Y1cXMYr?si=tccegXKkQ72Te9HHnuzYJg See more Jan 1, 2017 You know the story, it makes me sick. My heart aches for his poor mother....thankfully he is finally in her arms once again.....very in depth and informative..make sure you have a strong stomach. See more Oct 6, 2014 I never heard of this story until I was looking up another child abuse case and I was mortified at what I read. My husband said they watched this DVD and looked about it in school. I never did but I really wanted to see this and it's just so unreal how cruel and heartless people can be. It was a great documentary though. See more Sep 16, 2014 i want to see this movie because i feel like im going to learn alot about emmet till then what ive learned at school See more Jan 23, 2011 I read the story of Emmett Till a few years back when I was messing around on wikipedia. I couldn't not watch this documentary after what I read.... In 1955 Emmett Louis Till who was 14 years old, was brutally beaten and tortured to death for whistling at a white woman. He had been visiting family in Money, Mississippi when it had occured. A few days after he whistled 2 men came to his uncle's home and took the boy with them. Witness' said they heard the boy being murdered in a barn and had seen one of the 2 men walking out of the barn. He was a brother in law to the woman who was whistled at, and the second man was her husband. His body was pulled out of a river 3 days later with barbed wire tied around his neck on one end and the other tied to a big fan to help him sink. His body was so damaged he was only identified by a ring on his finger which bared his initials. One of his eyes had been gouged out and he had a bullet wound in his head. His skull had been split with and axe as well as all of his teeth but two knocked out. All for whistling at a white woman. This was a young boy! Children were not even safe thanks to Jim Crow and his segregation of whites and blacks in the south. To top it off the two men accused were found not guilty thanks to the white jury who admitted to making it seem like they were having trouble deciding but really just drug on time by drinking beer. Not only that the twp men were later on trial for kidnapping not long after, and they were still found not guilty even though the whole family was there and watched the two men take the boy. That trial was only about half hour! To add insult to injury... the two men one year later confessed and sold their confessions to a magazine for 4000 dollars. You think they would have been nabbed because of this, right?....no....because of the "Double Jeopardy" law they were not aloud to be tried twice for the same crime. Disgusting isn't it? there is so much more that came of this as well. Emmett Till is looked at as a martyr in a way because this led to the civil rights movement not long after. See more Nov 16, 2010 Can't believe this was only a few decades ago. A good doc about injustice and racism. See more Read all reviews

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