The Legacy of Emmett Till
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Part of the Alma and Joseph Gildenhorn Book Series
Two books shed new light on the violent death & search for justice that shook the nation's conscience.
Featuring:
John Edgar Wideman, author of, "Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File"
Timothy B. Tyson, author of, "The Blood of Emmett Till"
Moderated by Michele Norris
What happened to Emmett Till and the others at Burr Oak Cemetery was reprehensible. I am so sorry for the families. I just got back from that cemetery today and I am doing a video tribute to Emmett here on UA-cam, AND also to a singer I used to love to listen to, she is also buried there - Barbara Acklin. Sadly she has no tombstone. I am trying to find her next of kin so I can buy her one. The office staff there at Burr Oak is not helping me in any way. Thank heavens for good ground crew guys, who helped me find her exact burial location. I just put a white wooden cross at her grave that I made in my garage. it's not great, but it will do for now. If anyone wants to visit and pay respects to Emmett, his grave is easily found. There is a new headstone provided for him, which is very nice.
A living undermined SHAME … smh
Emmett you've soo many supporters the people who love you and remember you still.
Cant believe someone gave this informative and historical video a thumbs down...smh
they hate the truth
Fantastic discussion. Learned a lot from a brilliant man.
He didn't die in vain. The reaction around the world propelled foward civil rights. Rosa Parks stated it inspired her to do something brave. God bless Emmitt Till.
More than anything the legacy they're referring to the legacy of Mamie Till, Emmett's mother. She made sure his murder and the acquittal of his executioners reverberated the world over and effected change. Emmett Till was an unfortunate victim of a terrorist act. Mamie Till and Mose Wright were and are American heroes of the highest order.
Amen 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
I wonder if they feel the blood of Emmett Till on their (his relatives and friends) hands, they having dared him to do what he did. I heard the Rev. tell his version of what happened but he leaves out parts when describing when happened. A high yellow black from the city, the envy of the darker blacks...who knew he shouldn't have said anything to a white female in the south. They should have strongly admonished Emmett Till to NOT say or do ANYTHING, because of the chances of a highly unfavorable outcome, close to death, if not death.
Absolutely. They did not warn him at all it seems. Sad 😞
His mother lectured him about "custody of the eyes" etc before he left.
I think some of his Mississippi family was jealous of him. Emmett came down from Chicago with $20 and dressed nicely. I think some of his younger family members encourage him to speak inappropriately to Carol Bryant and the wolf whistle that cost him his life.I also heard that Maurice was the one that told Roy Bryant about the whole situation. Hindsight they should have told Moses Wright about the situation so that they could have sent him back home. I will never live or visit Mississippi because I still feel like that a racist state. It has a lot of bad history there.
"People" are vile and disgusting. I do NOT appreciate the "lighthearted" chuckling and giggling. If you know the FULL story (including the later confession of the 2 main murderers...........AFTER being acquitted), AND look at that 14 year-old child who was beaten and tortured beyond ALL recognition. Emmett Till's murder has to be among the MOST brutal murder of ALL the murders ever committed in a super VIOLENT country................against the backdrop of a woman who later admitted that she LIED about this 14 year-old boy "touching" her.
Are there good people in the world? Yes. However, I have gotten to the point in life (where seeing people at their worst.................yet, NOWHERE in the vicinity of this murder), where I avoid ALL interactions with people, unless they are absolutely necessary. People disgust me.
Both of those killers buried sons before they themselves died!
the brutality of this is the sign of the times such a horrific place that would so casually be able to brutalize a young man with such wreckless abandon and to cover it up with such cooperation and disregard for human life. . I'ts astonishing. Its so sad to hear this, it affects my heart so deeply.
Ya think they sold men's cloths where John Edgar Wideman got that blouse?
The legacy is he got lynched and tortured like all black Americans did and nobody did anything about it besides make a biography about it and to be honest I’m tired of bringing up things that do nothing but make you shake your head in say how did these things happen but we all know the answer to that
We have to keep bringing it up to teach the truth to our younger generation. My sons who are in their 20’s now we’re taught about this from me. Not in no school.
Also they continuously making money off of his name.
No tears for Anna Zanchi?
The John Bolton syndrome...Write your book, take no initiative to reveal discovered insights possible to effect meaningful change...