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Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2011 11:58 pm Post subject: The Untold Story of Emmet Louis Till (2005) |
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Using interviews with people involved at the time of the brutal murder of Emmet Till, the 14-year-old from Chicago who was visiting in Mississippi and who made the fatal mistake of whistling at a white woman in 1955, as well as with some of the same people many years later (presumably 2005), this documentary has some very important things to say.
The civil rights movement was inspired partly by the murder of Emmet Till.
In a matter-of-fact reporting style the movie lays out the details of what happened and when. But overarching these drily presented but horrible facts is the grief and rage of Emmet’s family and friends–most particularly his mother, whose courageous insistence on leaving the coffin open at Emmet’s funeral so that the world would clearly see what had been done to her son must have affected many.
We get a glimpse of the segregated south of that time. We have several views of the usually smiling killers of Emmet Till–Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam, neither of whom ever served a day for the crime.
In fact, they confessed to it several months after the trial and were paid well by Look magazine for their story. They knew they couldn’t be tried a second time for their crime.
The jury of course consisted entirely of white people. One of the most telling facts about the case that is mentioned in the movie is that the black people present, including Emmet’s mother, all left the courtroom before the jury returned with its verdict.
They already knew what the verdict would be. They knew the south and its people all too well. |
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