Emmett Till Research Paper

“NATION SHOCKED, VOW ACTION IN LYNCHING OF CHICAGO YOUTH.” The newspaper heading was big and bold, and the story was just as gruesome as it sounds. According to "Eyes On the Prize," the tragic death of Emmett Till was one to remember. But the biggest thing of all is what his mother did with his dead body. While most mothers would mourn, cry, then bury their dead sons, this mother wanted to show the world what these white people did to her only son. No matter how gruesome the body might be. Things like this were happening all the time in the early-to-mid-1900’s. All until the Civil Right Movement. But how did the Civil Right Movement happen and what did it do? Some causes were violence, abuse, and discrimination, while an effect was equality.

This violence is exactly what the whites did to African-Americans. For example, the Emmett Till killing. Partially described in the beginning of this text, the Emmett Till killing was when an African-American boy took a vacation with his friend to another part of the country. They were joking around which resulted in Emmett walking up and flirting with a white woman. This was very offensive here, so the woman informed her husband of this insolence. Later that day the man and his friend came to the place Emmett was staying at on his vacation and asked the guardian if he could take Emmett. He was hesitant but eventually allowed this to happen after hearing that he was just going to be beat. That did happen but there was more to be done. The man and his friend forced him to work, meaning that the men forced him to carrying a 75 pound cotton gin fan from the back of the truck to the riverbank. They then ordered him to strip and subsequently shot him in the head, allowing him to fall into the river. Accordingly to Eyes on the Prize,“The body was found 3 days later, the barbed wire holding the cotton gin fan around his neck has become snagged on a tangled river root. There was a bullet in the boy’s skull and his forehead was crushed on one