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- Late in the summer of 1955. Emmett, who lived with his mother in Chicago, had finally convinced his mother to allow him to go visit his cousins in Money, Mississippi before starting school in September. His mother had labored to explain the rules of the south to her only son… NEVER speak to a white person unless they first speak to you… Even if they speak to you, NEVER look a white person in the eye… ALWAYS look at the ground, at their feet, out of deference and respect… If you go into the store to buy your favorite treat, bubblegum, DO NOT put the penny in the hand of the white clerk, especially if the clerk is a female – lay it instead on the counter. Because in Money, MS, in 1955, black never touches white… Got it mom. Let me go. She’s a praying lady, so she put him on the train. Later that day Emmett and his cousins are hanging out at the general store in Money. What do 14 year old boys talk about? Girls, sports, and cars (in that order). Emmett told his cousins and other boys that had gathered around the store that day, “Not only do I go to school with white girls (unheard of in Money), I have 2 white girl friends!” “ Yada, Yada, you so fine with the white girls go into that store and speak to that white clerk.” Emmett bounded into the store, forgetting his mother’s warning, pulled a piece of bubblegum from the shelf and approached the white female clerk at the counter. Emmett was later accused of whistling at the clerk, but his mother explains what may have happened is that Emmett, who had a stuttering problem earlier in his childhood, and difficulty saying big words like bubblegum, which he absolutely loved, would whistle softly to himself before saying difficult words like bubblegum. Bad time to whistle, and to make matters worse, as he left the store, he is reported to have turned back to look the white female clerk in the eye and with a big grin and wave said, “Bye Babe!” and out the store he went. An older black man on the porch playing checkers with one of the boys said, “Boy, you better get out of here. They’re going to kill you!” At 2 am the following morning Emmett was pulled at gunpoint from his uncle’s house…it was the last time he was seen alive. It was the last time he was seen looking like a human because what they did to this young boy face was so horrific that the coroner in Money permanently sealed the casket before shipping the body back to Chicago for burial. As Maime Till stepped out of the limousine following the hearse that carried the body of her son, she was swarmed by reporters. “Ms Till, Ms Till, are you going to have an open casket service for your son?” To which she carefully replied, “Yes, I am.” “ But Ms Till, don’t you understand the condition your boy’s body is in? Why would you do that?” Her reply? “I want the whole world to see what they did to my boy.”
- Passed by Emmett’s casket over a three day period as his body lay in state in a small Baptist church. American historians have cited the death of Emmett Till as the catalyst for what important social movement? How many know who Rosa Parks was? She refused to give up her seat on the bus in Montgomery, AL, Dec. 1, 1955. She had actually refused several times before that, but had always relented when pressured with arrest. This time was different. Near the end of her life she was asked why she finally stood her ground. She said and I quote, “I didn’t want Emmett’s death to be in vain.” And with no disrespect to the memory of Emmett intended, do you think Emmett was the first black kid to be killed for so-called ‘stepping out of line in the south’? Do you think he would be the last? Unfortunately not. “So how could a relatively unknown black kid’s murder in a tiny backwater town called Money, Mississippi spark such an important and much needed social movement?” People saw, many for the first time. For many Americans, the word racism had lost most of its meaning before a broken hearted mother made a public display of the face of racism—showing it for the unacceptable violence it really is. Just as Maime Till showed us the face of racism, the face of her beloved son,
- Birmingham 1963
- Lewis Hine, photographer---beginning of 20 th century Hine: "Perhaps you are weary of child labour pictures. Well, so are the rest of us, but we propose to make you and the whole country so sick and tired of the whole business that when the time for action comes, child labour pictures will be records of the past." A breaker boy is a boy whose job is to separate coal from slate in coal mines . The job was very unhealthy and dirty due to exposure to coal dust .