The grave of Emmett Till

emmett till was born july 25 1941 in chicago illinois he was 14 years of age at the time of his murder on august 28 1945 just a month being 14 years old so emmett was known as a jokester and a prankster amongst his friends here in chicago he had contracted polio at a young age and it left him with a speech impediment so you know the neighborhood kids would razz them make fun of him and instead of retreating into a small hole in his apartment and hide from them he would just razz him right back make jokes right back to them and he became you know the the prankster the comedian amongst his friends and uh that's how a lot of them would describe him as of today so on the summer of 1945 emmett had went down to money mississippi to visit his uncle his uncle the previous summer had visited him in chicago and emma was asking him a bunch of questions on what it was like to live in mississippi so forth and so on and uh his uncle said hey well why don't you just come on down you can experience it for yourself so emma did and the story goes as follows so emin and his cousins and a couple of their friends have went to a candy store to purchase candy soda or what have you and it was a store that was owned by a married couple by the name of roy and carolyn bryant and while in the store the story gets a little bit murky as often many stories do stories change from year to year decade a decade people misremember things they don't remember things quite the way it actually happened so the story pretty much is that uh emmett seen a pretty white lady and he whistled at her now one of the friends that was with him says that it was more of like a dare type thing where he's like yeah i dare you to whistle at her or what have you point being he whistled at carolyn and they all ran out now the friend described emmett whistling at a white woman the equivalent of throwing a rock through a window and uh when he whistled they all ran because they weren't trying to stay around and see what was going to happen next so they all laughed about it what have you and three days later a knock on the door of emmett's uncle he opens the door and there's a white man with a gun and a flashlight and there was a woman waiting in a truck in the driveway and there were several men with them and he asked where emmett was and he asked him what this was concerning he said that emmett disrespected his sister the man that had went to the door was abandoned by the name of j.w milham which was the uh the brother of carolyn so [Music] emmett comes out and they basically at gunpoint kidnap him i'm assuming back in those days you didn't have access to a phone so it's not like you can call the police and when you're gonna call the police well you know black people were often mistreated in the south in those days and so emmett disappeared his family had called his mother like he had been kidnapped uh his mother was hoping that nothing awful would happen her son but unfortunately three days later uh emmett's body was found in a river about uh less than a dozen miles from where the uncle lived emmett was beaten very badly he was tortured one of his eyes was gouged out he was missing an ear he had a 75 pound uh fan from a cotton gin industrial sized fan tied to his neck with barbed wire his corpse was in a very very bad condition being that in the summertime in mississippi in the humidity it's going to disfigure a corpse very rapidly and the authorities down there tried to cover it up they tried to bury him as fast as they could when emma's mother found out about the murder about the lynching she demanded that his body be bought brac brought back to chicago for a proper burial and when he arrived back in chicago uh she opened the casket that he was in and seeing how horrible shape his corpse was i'm gonna put a picture up and that is his corpse uh she had noticed the uh gaping wound in his head she says she could see from one side of his head to the other all daylight from where the bullet entered and exited his head and emma's mother always prided in the fact that her son's teeth were so perfect she would always tell him brush your teeth brush your teeth brush your teeth she said in an interview that he had the nicest prettiest teach she had ever seen in her life and as we approached the grave the murdering scumbags roy bryant and j.w millem were arrested and tried for the murder of emmett till but a racist all-white jury in the south seen it a different way and the verdict came in as not guilty these guys got away with this kid's murder and it was a double jeopardy case being that once it was tried and they were found either guilty or innocent there would be no retrial and they literally got away with emmett's murder in a 1956 article in look magazine for four thousand dollars j.w millem and roy bryant admitted to the murder they admitted that they killed this young boy they admitted that they tortured him they admitted that they tied a industrial sized fan to him and tried to waste his body down in the river and there was nothing nobody could do the wife carolyn bryant even though her testimony was inadmissible during the trial she had testified that emmett had grabbed her by the waist and was cat-calling her and saying uh inappropriate things a lot of customers and swear words later in a 2008 interview she admitted that she lied nothing of the kind happened see if we get this open not sure what this means maybe they're going to install a bridge somewhere at a later date and time which they probably will so rest in peace to this young boy doesn't matter what he did that's uh what happened to him was uh one of the more uh brutal murders i've ever read about and uh this is why this is why we we you know we teach history to to never forget that horrible atrocities like this occurred to this to emmet and we don't sweep these things under the rug we honestly don't and to anybody who's watching this who says that i'm uh that i'm somehow being divisive and i'm bringing this up this is a pass and it should stay in the past well uh let me tell you this this boy did not ask to be brutally tortured and murdered and everybody has a story to tell there's thousands of graves out here and i don't know none of their stories but i tell you what i know this this boy's story right here and uh simply me just kind of telling it i know a lot of people already know the story and uh yeah it was a it was a an absolute atrocity what happened to him and uh just here to uh not to shake my finger just to remind people this this boy he had a you know emmett had he was alive he had things he wanted to do he liked girls he liked running with his friends and a couple of murdering racist scumbags murdered him and a racist jury a racist jury found that they were they were innocent of the crime it only took them a little over an hour to come up with the verdict and the only reason why they said it took him an hour was because they went for a soda break there was a very very racist time in our history you know it is what it is guys so recipes to emmett till his mother is uh buried out here too i was looking around in the graves and i couldn't find her but i i think she might be over by the entrance so we're going to go drive over there really quickly and here is the grave of mammy till mobley she's buried next to her i believe this might be her second or her third husband i'm not quite sure mammy till mobley the mother of the slain emma louis till junior and the wife of the late genie mobley jr i was wondering where emmett till's dad was in all of this me just wondering and i looked him up his name was louis till and he was a soldier in the united states army he was stationed during world war ii in italy and him and a friend of his they were arrested on suspicious suspicions of uh committing a couple rapes in the city where they were stationed at and the murder of a young italian woman and he was tried and convicted and sentenced to death and he was hung he's buried in a cemetery for americans in france somewhere not very pertinent to the story but just kind of shows the the tragedy in all of this just very weird they both were they both died the same year i believe so the father and son i don't know very sad all around my prayers to mammy's soul emmett's and that uh and that uh a woman that was killed all right guys uh lamont at large from the borough cemetery in austin illinois i will catch up with you on the next vlog thank you for watching guys i appreciate it see you later peace out

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Length: 12min 33sec (753 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 03 2020