Emmett Till Murder Case Essay

In 1955, Emmett Till, a 14 year-old boy, went to a grocery store with his cousin, where he bought a piece of candy, and left the store. Emmett stayed in the store and talked to the white woman, Carolyn Bryant, running the counter, shortly after the woman walk out the store, Emmett wolf whistle at her, and then ran away with his cousin. A few days later, the woman husband, Roy Bryant, came back from a business trip, the woman told her husband about what happened, days later, Roy Bryant , his brother- in law, J.W Wright, and Carolyn Bryant went to where Emmett was staying and took him away. On August 31, 1955, Emmett Till’s body is found brutally beaten in a nearby river where he was killed. Roy Bryant and J.W Milam should be charged with first-degree murder and kidnapping, because they beat-up and killed Emmett Till. Carolyn Bryant should charged with conspiracy and perjury, because She knew what the plans were to hurt Emmett Till, and lied to authorities under oath.
Roy Bryant and J.W Milam plan and act on kidnapping and beating-up Emmett Till.”Sometime on Saturday August 27, plans fell into place to kidnap the offending black teenager and…

Emmett did not harass her, there is new evidence that Carolyn lied about what happened between her and Till. In the book “ The blood of Emmett Till” were she confesses that she fabricated the story of what happened between her and Till. “,she charge that Till had “insulted” her, not grabbed her, certainly not attempted to rape her.” This what Emmett’s family learned after reading the first chapter of the book of Timothy B. Tyson, who she told how the first story was not truth story, that Emmett Till never sexually harassed her, proving that he never hurt or threaten her in an inappropriate manner. Also, Meaning she lied in court to authorities telling them a false story, committing perjury, and maybe if she told the true, Emmett Till could still be alive…