Emmett Till-69 Years and Still No Justice

What elese could I do. He thought he was as good as any white man- J.W. Millam when asked why he killed emmett Till - J.W. Milam on the killing of Emmett Till

On August 28, 1955, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam (both white men) abducted a 14-year-old Emmett Till (black teen) from his great-uncle’s home in Money, Mississippi. The men drove Emmett to a storage shed on Milam’s property in Drew, Mississippi, where they took turns torturing and beating him with a pistol, before forcing him to load a 74-pound fan into the back of their pick-up truck. The men then drove Emmett to the edge of the Tallahatchie River, they ordered him to remove his clothes, and shot him in the head. Once the child was dead, Bryant and Milam chained the fan to his corpse and rolled it into the river.

EMMETT was accused of being to familiar with the white lady.

Emmett Till- Open Casket

Facts:

On September 23 the all-male, all white jury (both women and blacks had been banned from serving in the jury) acquitted both defendan…