Supreme Court ruling that segregated buses were unconstitutional.
In December 1955, the Montgomery bus boycott began in Alabama and lasted more than a year, resulting eventually in a U.S. Till's murder was seen as a catalyst for the next phase of the civil rights movement. Protected against double jeopardy, the two men publicly admitted in a 1956 interview with Look magazine that they had tortured and murdered the boy, selling the story of how they did it for $4,000 (equivalent to $40,000 in 2021). In September 1955, an all-white jury found Bryant and Milam not guilty of Till's murder. Although local newspapers and law enforcement officials initially decried the violence against Till and called for justice, they responded to national criticism by defending Mississippians, temporarily giving support to the killers.
Intense scrutiny was brought to bear on the lack of black civil rights in Mississippi, with newspapers around the U.S. Tens of thousands attended his funeral or viewed his open casket, and images of his mutilated body were published in black-oriented magazines and newspapers, rallying popular black support and white sympathy across the U.S. racism and the barbarism of lynching but also the limitations and vulnerabilities of American democracy". Her decision focused attention on not only U.S. It was later said that "The open-coffin funeral held by Mamie Till Bradley exposed the world to more than her son Emmett Till's bloated, mutilated body. Till's body was returned to Chicago, where his mother insisted on a public funeral service with an open casket, which was held at Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ. Three days later, the boy's mutilated and bloated body was discovered and retrieved from the river. They took him away then beat and mutilated him before shooting him in the head and sinking his body in the Tallahatchie River. Milam, who were armed, went to Till's great-uncle's house and abducted Emmett. Several nights after the incident in the store, Bryant's husband Roy and his half-brother J.W.
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Till's interaction with Bryant, perhaps unwittingly, violated the unwritten code of behavior for a black male interacting with a white female in the Jim Crow-era South. Although what happened at the store is a matter of dispute, Till was accused of flirting with, touching, or whistling at Bryant. He spoke to 21-year-old Carolyn Bryant, the white, married proprietor of a small grocery store there.
During summer vacation in August 1955, he was visiting relatives near Money, Mississippi, in the Mississippi Delta region. Till was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. Till posthumously became an icon of the civil rights movement. The brutality of his murder and the fact that his killers were acquitted drew attention to the long history of violent persecution of African Americans in the United States.
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