[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he murder of a 14-year old black boy Emmett Till in Money, Mississippi in August 1955, it is argued, sparked the Civil Rights movement. The gruesome photographs of Till’s mutilated corpse circulated around the country, notably appearing in Jet magazine, which targeted African American crowd. The photo drew intense public reaction. Till, while visiting Mississippi from Chicago, whistled* at a married white woman and incurred the wrath of local white residents.
The sheer brutal arrogance of racism is well represented in this documentary brief in 2 parts on the tragic death of Emmett Till. The question is, why did such horrendous crimes still exist in the United States 100 years after the end of the Civil War that formally “emancipated negroes”? Where was the federal government? The media? The will of the nation to do the right thing? The events in Ferguson, Missouri, which continue to date, are a reminder that racism continues to collect victims and that much more needs to be done for this country’s power structure to consider rectifying a form of criminality to which most Americans have become inured.
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