They are this country - (murder of Emmett Till in Mississippi '55 sparked civil rights movem't)

TOWNHALL.COM ^ | JUNE 18, 2005 | GEORGE WILL

[CHARLITE]

Wright participated in a service for the reinterment of the body of the boy with whom Wright, then 12, was sharing a bed in the Mississippi home of Wright's father 50 years ago. It was the night that lit the fuse of the civil rights revolution.

[Arpege92]

I've been told to pray for enemies and the evil things they do, but the beating and the death of this young man makes it impossible.

[WKB]

It doesn't change the circumstances
and the boy did not deserve to die.
And if they can convict someone who is
guilty in any way then I am all for it
but he did more than "just whistle" at
a white woman. Today he could\would be charged
with sexual assault or at the least harassment.
Here is the contemporary article from Look magazine. The actual event that led to the killing:

Bobo Till was 14 years old: born on July 25, 1941. He was stocky, muscular, weighing about 160, five feet four or five. Preacher later testified: "He looked like a man."

Bobo's party joined a dozen other young Negroes, including two other girls, in front of the store. Bryant had built checkerboards there. Some were playing checkers, others were wrestling and "kiddin' about girls."

Bobo bragged about his white girl. He showed the boys a picture of a white girl in his wallet; and to their jeers of disbelief, he boasted of success with her.

"You talkin' mighty big, Bo," one youth said. "There's a pretty little white woman in the store. Since you know how to handle white girls, let's see you go in and get a date with her?"

"You ain't chicken, are yuh, Bo?" another youth taunted him. Bobo had to fire or fall back. He entered the store, alone, stopped at the candy case. Carolyn was behind the counter; Bobo in front. He asked for two cents' worth of bubble gum. She handed it to him. He squeezed her hand and said: "How about a date, baby?"

She jerked away and started for Juanita Milam. At the break between counters, Bobo jumped in front of her, perhaps caught her at the waist, and said: "You needn't be afraid o' me, Baby. I been with white girls before."

At this point, a cousin ran in, grabbed Bobo and began pulling him out of the store. Carolyn now ran, not for Juanita, but out the front, and got the pistol from the Milam car.

Outside, with Bobo being ushered off by his cousins, and with Carolyn getting the gun, Bobo executed the "wolf whistle" which gave the case its name:

[CHARLITE]

Thanks for posting the contemporaneous article from LOOK MAGAZINE. It is always helpful to have a more accurate picture.............and I very much like (and agree with) your tagline, WKB!

"A closed mind is a good thing to lose."

Thanks for your comment and the article.

Char

[WKB]

Thanks for posting the contemporaneous article from LOOK MAGAZINE. It is always helpful to have a more accurate picture



You are more than welcome.
I have been "eating this dust" my whole life.
I hope this and the Killen trial will put
and end to some of it. But I doubt it.
Mississippi probably has the best race relations
in the nation but you would never know it by what
you see and hear.
BTW I notice you post some very good threads.

[CHARLITE]

Thanks so much. I really work hard at it, and find it very rewarding. I learn so much from the interchange here on Free Republic.

Thanks again for your own excellent remarks!

Char :)

[Mind-numbed Robot]

I understand your feelings. Keep in mind that somewhere in the world, often right here, there is much worse going on everyday. If you can do some thing about it, do. If you can't, usually because you know nothing about it, let God handle it. He eventually will anyway.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Is there any reason you are reading a thread that is more than 2 years old? Why are you directing your post to me?

A friendly hint: check your spelling with the installed spell checker here at FR before posting.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

I just noticed you have joined FR only today. By posting a two year old article about a racist event are you trying to paint us as racists, ala Bill O’Reilly?

[reagan_fanatic]

Welcome to Free Republic.

[dirtboy]

You’re as subtle as a kimchee fart in an elevator. But I guess you’ll get your planted racist screed planted in a Google cache somewhere as “proof” that FR is racist.

[Palladin]

O’Reilly has his little minions out in force, trying to smear FR.

For once, I have to agree with Olbermann...Bill O’reilly really is the Worst Person in the World...at least in the TV World.