To Be Equal; the Murder of Emmett Till: Still Seeking Justice

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When her son's body was returned to Chicago, [Emmett Till]'s mother, then Mamie Till Bradley, insisted that the casket remain open at his funeral so that "all the world [could] see what they did to my son."

"We owe it to Emmett Till, we owe it to his mother and to his family," Mr. [R. Alexander Acosta] said, "and we owe it to ourselves to see if, after all these years, any additional measure of justice is still possible."

A product of the culture of the lynching of African-Americans which infested the South since the 1880s, the murder of Emmett Till and the injustice which followed shocked even those Blacks who fully understood that the racist laws and customs of the [Jim Crow] South rested on the willingness of the region's white majority to commit or tolerate heinous violence.

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To Be Equal; the Murder of Emmett Till: Still Seeking Justice

"The arc of the moral universe is long," Martin Luther King Jr. often said, but it bends toward justice."

Perhaps now, at long last, the arc of the moral universe will produce justice for Emmett Till, murdered in Money, Miss., nearly a half centu...

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