THE MURDER OF EMMETT TILL AND THE BIRTH OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT - Money, Mississippi. A historic marker stands in front of the former Bryant Grocery Store in Money, Mississippi where, on August 24th, 1955, a visiting 14 year-old black boy from Chicago named Emmett Till allegedly whistled at white shopkeeper Carolyn Bryant - an innocuous act that resulted in Till being kidnapped, brutally beaten and murdered by the woman’s angry husband, Roy, and a few associates. Till’s body was found days later in the Tallahatchie River, located just a stone’s throw from this spot. His mutilated corpse was weighted-down by a 70 lbs. metal fan-blade wrapped onto him with barbed-wire. He had been shot in the head. The racist brutality of Till’s murder shocked the nation and media coverage of his funeral served to act as a spark for the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement. Till became a symbolic martyr against the evils of systemic racism and lawlessness. The subsequent show-trial acquittal of his confessed killers further fueled the flames of change and galvanized the Movement into a force for social justice through political action. Several markers noting these events and their historic impact are located throughout the area as part of the Civil Rights “Mississippi Freedom Trail.” Photo by Michael Huntington - May, 2019. @Huntington_Strange_Travels #StrangeTravels #MichaelHuntington #HuntingtonAdventures #EmmettTill #EmmettTillLynching #EmmettTillMurder #CivilRights #CivilRightsMovement #CivilRightsHistory #BlackHistory #MississippiFreedomTrail #FreedomTrail #TallahatchieRiver #BryantGroceryStore #MoneyMississippi (at Money, Mississippi) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9Fs3VSFVoe/?igshid=1qu3x4u2tl0r4
