A Fateful Encounter: Emmett Till and the Shadow of the American South
Words: 888 1238In August 1955, the deep-rooted racial tensions of the American South converged tragically on a single, seemingly innocuous interaction in a small grocery store in Money, Mississippi. Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African American boy from Chicago, found himself at the epicenter of a storm that would forever alter the course of the Civil Rights Movement. What he said to Carolyn Bryant, a white woman working in her family’s store, remains a matter of speculation and myth, but the ramifications of […]
