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Title: The Life of a Young Man was Cut Short


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The Life of a Young Man was Cut Short
  • By Andrew Carnegie School

2
World Events Before Emmetts Birth
  • Depression
  • Famine
  • Wars
  • Racism/ Discrimination
  • Holocaust

3
United States Declares War
  • The U.S. entered World War II on December 8,
    1941, the day after Pearl Harbor was attacked by
    the Japanese.

4
WORLD LEADERS DURING WWII
  • (from left to right)
  • Winston Churchill--Prime Minister of United
    Kingdom, Franklin D. Roosevelt --President of
    United State and Joseph Stalin- USSR
  • Edward Joseph Kelly mayor of Chicago
  • (from left to right)
  • Hitler Leader of Germany and
  • Mussolini-Prime Minister of Italy
  • Hideki Tojo -Prime Minister of Japan

5
The Life of Emmett Till
  • Emmett Louis Bobo Till was born to the proud
    parents of Louis and Mamie Till on July 25, 1941
    in Chicago, Illinois. His father died in World
    War II.

6
The Life of Emmet Till (continued)
  • At the tender age of 5, Emmett was stricken
    with polio, which left him with a slight stutter.

7
The Life of Emmett Till (continued)
  • He attended James McCosh Elementary School,
    located on the south side of Chicago. This school
    has recently been renamed the Emmett Louis Till
    School in his honor.

8
The Life of Emmett Till(continued)
  • Emmett loved the Chicago White Sox and to tell
    and listen to jokes. But most of all he enjoyed
    eating candy and making his belly roll.

9
TAKING A TRIP
  • At the age of 14, Emmett went to Money,
    Mississippi with his cousin to visit his great
    uncle Mose Wright. Emmetts mom gave him a signet
    ring that belonged to his father, on the day
    before he went to Mississippi. His mother also
    told Emmett to watch what he said and did during
    his visit in Mississippi because of the racism
    that existed. Emmett told her not to worry about
    him.

10
  • EMMETTS BIG MISTAKE
  • One night Emmett along with his cousins and
    friends sneaked out from a church meeting where
    his great uncle Mose was preaching, and went to
    the Bryants Grocery and Meat Market. The friends
    and cousins dared Emmett to talk to the store
    owners wife, Carolyn Bryant who was a white
    woman. As Emmett was leaving the store, he
    allegedly turned whistled and at her.

11
MEN WHO KIDNAPPED EMMETT
  • Roy Bryant and his half brother
  • J.W. Milan accompanied by their wives.

12
THE KIDNAPPING AND TORTURE(the shed)
  • Rumors of the incident at Bryants store
    quickly spread throughout the town and finally
    reached Carolyn Bryants husband, Roy Bryant.
    Roy, along with his half brother, J.W. Milan,
    planned to get revenge on Emmett, by teaching him
    a lesson. On Sunday morning, August 27, 1955,
    around 230 a.m., Roy Bryant and J.W. went to the
    home of Mose Wright and awaked a sleeping Emmett
    and forced him from his great uncles home.

13
THE SEARCH FOR EMMETT
  • Emmetts family and friends were very worried
    and concerned about the missing Emmett. Some
    thought he had been beaten to death and taken out
    of town because of the incident at Bryants
    grocery store.

14
EMMETTS BODY ON DISPLAY
  • The mutilated body of Emmett Till as it was
    viewed at the funeral services in Chicago

15
VERDICT
  • Bryant and Milan were both found not guilty
  • and set free.

16
AFTER THE TRIAL
  • Bryant and Milan made many comments after
    the trial, even alluding to getting away with
    murder Weeks later they confessed to a
    magazine how they tortured, murdered and dumped
    the body of Emmett Till in the Tallahatchie
    River.

17
VERDICTS REACTION
  • The start
  • of the
  • Civil Rights Movement

18
WEBLIOGRAPHY
  • World War II
  • http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II
  • Political leaders during World War II
  • http//www.2worldwar2.com/leaders.htm
  • Pictures of political leaders during World War
    II
  • http//www.2worldwar2.com/leaders.htm
  • Highlights of World War II
  • http//www.euronet.nl/users/wilfried/ww2/ww2.htm
  • Emmett Tills Life
  • http//www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history
    /2750/Emmett_Till_a_young_life_cut_short

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WEBLIOGRAPHY
  • Barn where Emmett was tortured
  • http//graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2005/07/28/mag
    azine/31till.3.184.jpg
  • Emmett Tills Life
  • http//www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history
    /2750/Emmett_Till_a_young_life_cut_short
  • Time Line
  • http//www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/till/timeline/index.h
    tml
  • Emmett Tills Life
  • http//www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history
    /2750/Emmett_Till_a_young_life_cut_short

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Emmett Louis Tills Resting Place
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