Review: Elliot J. Gorn | Let The People See: The Story of Emmett Till |
Oxford University Press 2018 | 392 Pages
Around two in the morning on August 24, 1955, Roy Bryant and his
half-brother, J.W. Milam, pulled up to the home of Mose Wright, a
part-time preacher and full-time cotton farmer in the Mississippi Delta.
Holding a pistol in one hand and a flashlight in the other, Milam
demanded that “Preacher” Wright, a Black man, turn over his grandnephew,
Emmett Till, for questioning. Bryant and Milam wanted to find out
whether Emmett was the boy who allegedly wolf-whistled, insulted, or
perhaps touched Bryant’s wife, who worked behind the counter at Bryant’s
grocery store in the little town of Money. Wright, suggesting that
Emmett did not yet know the ways of the South, explained that the boy
had arrived from Chicago only a week before. Wright feared that if
Bryant and Milam took the boy away, Emmett would never be seen again.
Wright was so alarmed that he said Bryant and Milam could give Emmett a
beating on the premises. Wright’s wife offered them money. Both offers
were refused. Before taking Emmett away, Milam made it clear that Wright
would be killed if he told anyone about what had transpired that night.
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