Black Kos, Week In Review: “This Is an Old Story, A Southern Gothic”

Black Kos, Week In Review: “This is an Old Story, A Southern Gothic”

by Black Kos Editor, Justice Putnam On this day, 28 Aug 1955, when I was six months old, 14-year-old Emmett Till was abducted by two white supremacists and…

The dream they couldn’t kill

On August 28, 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till was murdered in Mississippi.His name should be remembered.So should the date.Till had traveled from Chicago to visit relatives in the Mississippi Delta. On August 24, he entered Bryant’s Grocery and Meat Market in Money, Mississippi, where he interacted with Carolyn Bryant, a white woman who worked there. Accounts of what happened inside the store have long been disputed. Later evidence, including Brya…

Emmett Till: The 14-Year-Old Boy Who Was Lynched for Whistling at a White Woman in 1955 - TalkAfricana

In the summer of 1955, Emmett Louis Till was a fourteen-year-old boy from Chicago who was looking forward to spending part of his school vacation with relatives in Mississippi. He was born on July 25, 1941, and had grown up on Chicago’s South Side, far from the particular racial customs that governed everyday life in […] TalkAfricana