December 10, 2019
Emmett Louis Till
J.W. Milam
Roy Bryant
Ronnie Woods
The story of Emmett Till is a very sad but necessary and eye opening case in American history. And the fact that 70 years later we still hear stories of young men and women of color being brutally murdered and their murderers getting off free should infuriate the world today. Thank God for the strength and audacity of Mamie Till. She struck a chord in the hearts and minds of those brave men and women of the Civil Rights Era to fight for the freedoms that most take for granted today.
01/03/2020
5:59 am
Melissa Garza
This is an amazing article, I have heard of Emmett Till’s story before but you offered a very good description to those who might haven’t heard of the case. Emmett Till’s death is really upsetting because I just don’t understand how people could have been so cruel and evil to African-Americans. And honestly to this day, they still are. From gun violence in the black community, to the way the media portrays them, it is still a very prominent problem today. In this case, which is one of many, Emmett was only a young boy who was clearly innocent and he did not deserve what happened to him.
03/04/2020
5:59 am
Micheala Whitfield
Each story pertaining to racism and the south, always get harder and harder to read. The violence white individuals showed to people of different color will be a never ending process of forgiveness. No one has the right to treat others the way that they did. I’m astonished to read about one of the witnesses actually hearing Emmett being tortured. Imagine that poor man having to live everyday with the sound in his mind. What I am thankful to see is the difference in society from this event. It has progressed a long way from the hatred that was everyday life. It’s not completely gone, but the change is there. Good choice in writing. I enjoyed reading it.
07/04/2020
5:59 am
Carlos Apodaca
i never heard about Emmett Till before but his story really shows how cruel and poorly African Americans were treated and how racist the country was during the 1900’s. Its hard to think about the pain and suffering a lot of people endured especially in places like Missisippi, where a lot these race murders were occuring according to the article. Its unfortunate that actions like these were allowed to happen for many years.
12/04/2020
5:59 am
Vianka Medina
I know the story of Emmett Till, it breaks my heart every time to hear what he went through. But this article was so well structured, giving background information of what else was going on in Mississippi during those years, making the story more dreadful to hear. It is just so sad and horrible to know how people could get away with almost anything like murder if they were white back then, mainly in Mississippi. But what the mom, Mamie Till, did brought awareness to the world of how cruel whites were to blacks, and to her own son! No mother or father should have to go through such thing.
23/08/2020
5:59 am
Nadia Manitzas
Oh how this makes my blood boil. Emmett Till’s story is one I will never forget. I remember learning about his story in history class and my heart absolutely shattered for that poor kid. It also opened my eyes to the treatment that African Americans were being treated like during the 1900’s. The fact that his case was taken in all white court shows the unfairness towards his life because the evidence was so strong and still the men weren’t punished. We can’t forget that when a person is murdered or passes away that is someones son, daughter,sibling,granchild, etc… It’s so important to me that these cases become well-known so this never occurs again in our country. America needs to be better and not repeat history or else all hell will break loose. Emmett Till will never be forgotten.
23/08/2020
5:59 am
Yamel Herrera
The story of Emmet Till is one that I feel all people should be taught. This article did a great job of capturing the effect of white supremacy and its deep roots in the U.S. The constant reference to the “veins of Mississippi” allow the reader to understand the perceptions of the Northern and Southern states as personified beings with opposing values. I think this article could benefit by referencing to how this deep history of segregation and discrimination has led to systematic racism in the U.S., in addition to also referencing to current racial issues like the Black Lives Matter Movement.
31/08/2020
5:59 am
Maria Obregon
This article does a very good job showing what people had to go through back then in the South. I had heard Emmett Till’s story before, but it is so disturbing and it breaks my heart every time I come across it again. He was just an innocent young boy. This article makes me realize how I will never understand how people had the heart to do the horrible things that they did to people just because they were a different color of skin. I will also never understand how those horrible acts were allowed and how there were no punishments.
04/09/2020
5:59 am
Aleea Costilla
No matter how tragic our nation’s history, it is in need to hear to give the awareness, it deserves, in the hopes that we can learn from our mistakes. The story of Emmett Till is one that will never be forgotten, and his pain and suffering will not be in vain. The discrimination of our country is one I will truly never be able to comprehend, and this shows a blatant example of how our justice system failed. Unfortunately, although we have put aside segregation and Jim Crow laws, discrimination still exists, but it is through educating our nation’s future with stories such as Emmett Till that we can only hope for a better generation of tomorrow.
06/09/2020
5:59 am
Francisco Cruzado
I hardly ever ponder on systematic racism against African-Americans, maybe because I was not born in this culture, and because the retellings I have heard of and read are those that come from tragic stories and literature and those of plain slavery. I do remember, however, the impactful image of hundreds of some old newspapers that I found in a Peruvian library where I could clearly read what was the price of a black man, and how he was better in doing the laundry, and how a woman was in search of a black. I remember reading those publications and advertisements in an 1853-newspaper and realizing that racism, racial prejudices, and ethnic hate, are an unfortunate global issue. Emmett Till is just another unfortunate story
23/02/2020
5:59 am