Emmett Till, also known as Bobo born July 25, 1941 in Chicago, IL. As a young man he was always known as a very muscular, athletic boy. By the age of 14 "Bobo" was known as the oldest looking kid in the town he fooled numerous adults into believing that he was an adult by how he acted, stood tall and by his physical presence. With all of this happening you would think that he would be well liked and able to get along with everybody which was true, for the most part. On August 21, 1955 he arrived outside of a local grocery store with his uncle and his cousin Curtis Jones after they skipped church. The owners of the store were a young couple by the names of Roy and Carolyn Bryant who were around the age of 24. That particular day Carolyn was alone working in the store when the young boys came in to buy some candy as they normally did every week. The boys that he hung out with were constantly daring him and telling him to go talk to the alone Carolyn, and finally he took up their offer and went and spoke to her. There is numerous different stories of what exactly he said some say he just whistled at her or some say that he said, "bye baby" to her. Well whatever he said it still upset the white people at the time and they wanted to make sure he knew what he did was wrong and they did. Carolyn's newly wedded husband Roy was on the look out for Emmett and when he got a tip of where he might be he jumped on it. Him and his brother-in-law found him staying at his great uncles house for the trip. They found him and what they did after that is unspeakable. First they transported him to a barn in the middle of nowhere, beat his face in with different weapons, then they gouged one of his eyes out then to dispose of the body they tied a cotton gin (70 pounds) around his neck with barb wire and tossed it and him into the Tallahatchie River where his body was found 3 days later down stream.
EB, DS
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