ghettablasta: Emmett Louis Till was murdered at the age of 14 in Money, Mississippi after allegedl
ghettablasta: Emmett Louis Till was murdered at the age of 14 in Money, Mississippi after allegedly whistling at a white woman. The murder of Emmet Till became one of the leading struggles in the American Civil Rights Movement. The main suspects were acquitted and later admitted to the murder. Till’s mother insisted on a public funeral service, with an open casket so as to show the world the brutality of racism in the US South. Till had been beaten and an eye gouged out before he was shot through the head and thrown into the Tallahatchie River with a 70-pound cotton gin fan tied around his neck with barbed wire. His body was in the river for three days before it was discovered. Don’t scroll. To forget genocide is to kill twice. #NeverForget -- source link