Murder+of+Emmett+Till

Emmett and his cousins went to visit this great uncle Mose Wright. Emmett and his picked cotton for Mose and later went to town. Some day in August 1955 Emmett "wolf whistled" at a white women who was leaving the store. A few days later after the wolf whistle Roy Bryant and his half brother heard about what hap happened. They started looking for Emmett. They found him in Mose Wright's cabin. They carried Emmett out to "teach him a lesson'. Emmett was taken on August 28th and found 3 days later. He was found at the bottom of a river with a 75 pound factory fan tied around his neck with Barbed wire and his right eye was hanging down to his cheek. His nose was flattened and there was a gun shoot through his head. Emmett's mom called him as the Sacrificial Lamb.
 * Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam** where tried for Emmett's death. But with a all white all male jury they where off the hook with in a hour. Shortly after they sold their story to a journalist.

this website [] said that Emmett had a stutter problem and his mother had taught him to whistle when he couldn't pronounce/say a word. This could be true however I was not able to find it on any other website.

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