Post by Groucho on May 12, 2004 23:24:55 GMT -5
Well, it appears there may be some justice meted out in this abominable affair, after all.
Full Article...
www.nytimes.com/2004/05/11/national/11TILL.html
I watched this documentary last winter and was appalled at the outcome. I'm not being naive. I'm aware of how the justice sysytem was skewed in favor of whites in that era in that part of the country. But, to me, this was just friggin' appalling.
I hope they nail whomever is still alive from the conspirators who perpetrated this excrable deed.
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U.S. Reopens '55 Murder Case, Flashpoint of Civil Rights Era
By ERIC LICHTBLAU and ANDREW JACOBS
Published: May 11, 2004
WASHINGTON, May 10 — Nearly a half-century after the brutal killing of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black youth, in Mississippi provided a flashpoint in the civil rights movement, the Justice Department said Monday that it was opening a criminal investigation into the case in light of new evidence.
In a surprise announcement, prosecutors said information uncovered in the filming of two documentaries on the 1955 killing suggested that people besides the two original suspects may have been involved...
By ERIC LICHTBLAU and ANDREW JACOBS
Published: May 11, 2004
WASHINGTON, May 10 — Nearly a half-century after the brutal killing of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black youth, in Mississippi provided a flashpoint in the civil rights movement, the Justice Department said Monday that it was opening a criminal investigation into the case in light of new evidence.
In a surprise announcement, prosecutors said information uncovered in the filming of two documentaries on the 1955 killing suggested that people besides the two original suspects may have been involved...
Full Article...
www.nytimes.com/2004/05/11/national/11TILL.html
I watched this documentary last winter and was appalled at the outcome. I'm not being naive. I'm aware of how the justice sysytem was skewed in favor of whites in that era in that part of the country. But, to me, this was just friggin' appalling.
...Emmett Till, a Chicagoan who was visiting relatives in Money, Miss., that August, was dragged from his bed, beaten, shot and dropped in the Tallahatchie River after he had been accused of whistling at a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's store. The image of Emmett's battered body in an open coffin at his funeral in Chicago became a galvanizing moment in the civil rights movement, particularly for many Northerners removed from the brutalities of the Jim Crow era...
I hope they nail whomever is still alive from the conspirators who perpetrated this excrable deed.
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