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Follow Us. Terms Privacy Policy. Part of HuffPost Black Voices. All rights reserved. Chicago native Emmett Till, 14, was brutally murdered in Mississippi after a white woman accused of him of sexual misconduct in a store in She later recanted her allegations. Mamie Bradley center , Emmett Till's mother, at his funeral. She insisted on having an open casket funeral for him so the world could see what was done to him. From left J. Look magazine in published an account of the slaying in which Milam admitted to the killing, which occurred after Till purportedly whistled at Bryant's wife in their store.
Both men have since died. Alexander Acosta, assistant attorney general for civil rights. In , Emmett Till, a Chicago native, was sent south to Mississippi to visit his uncle Mose Wright on a summer visit to the hometown of his mother, Mamie Till Mobley. At the time, the town of Money was controlled by a white minority and much of the black population, including Wright, were sharecroppers.
On Aug. What exactly happened there remains somewhat uncertain. According to some reports, Till told the other boys during that trip that his girlfriend at home was white, which led them to dare him to ask out the white cashier, Carolyn Bryant, thinking he would never be so bold.
At that time in the South, even though Till was still an adolescent, such an action would have been dangerous. According to some, he said something to Carolyn Bryant; others say he whistled. He and his brother-in-law J. As Wright pleaded with the men not to take him, the men forced Till into their car at gunpoint and drove him away. He had been beaten — his head was smashed in and shot — and a 75 lb.
Wright was only able to identify the body as his nephew from the initialed ring still on his hand. Members of the community resented press from northern states coming down to cover the issue — especially black journalists, who were relegated to a card table in the courtroom and berated by the local sheriff. In a letter to Congress, the Department of Justice said it was reopening the investigation into Till's murder based on the discovery of new information, but it didn't specify what that information was or who might be the subject of their inquiry.
In his earlier life, Jones successfully prosecuted another famous decades-old civil rights case. He convicted two members of the Ku Klux Klan for the murder of four young black girls in the bombing at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. I wonder if you could just give me your reaction to the news about this reopening of the inquiry into Emmett Till's case.
That's a decades-old case that needs as thorough a look as possible. It's an uphill battle on any of these old cases, but I think that one, of all the cases that are out there, certainly needs as thorough a look as possible. We will see how it goes. The DOJ has said that there is some new evidence, but they haven't explained what the evidence might be or who they're looking at.
Well, obviously, they have seen some new evidence. I think there are some media reports about admissions that the wife of one of the former defendants who is now deceased has made. I think that's probably part of it. And I think the Justice Department, over the years, has been very active in trying to take a look at these old cases. From the time that I was U. If they can make a case, they will make a case. If they can't, they will send it off to the state to see if the state can make a case, which is probably more likely in the case of the Emmett Till investigation, if a case can be made at all.
It's an uphill battle. Help me understand what you think might still be left to investigate, because the two men who were charged with the murder were exonerated, but they then admitted they had done it. But they have both died. The wife of one of the men admitted she perjured herself, but I believe the statute of limitations is up on that. So, what is there still to investigate, in your mind? Well, there may be other people involved.
The wife could still be involved. She could have been part of the whole conspiracy, that the lying was just part of that. So I think that there's a way to — at least as far as the state statutes are concerned, to bring this in a manner in which the statute of limitation wouldn't have run. It really is going to depend on who it is that they're looking at and how it can connect to the crime itself, not just the abduction, but the murder itself.
Timothy Tyson, the scholar who wrote the book about Emmett Till and who we just heard from, from an old interview from Jeffrey Brown, gave a press conference where he said the announcement of this inquiry is politically motivated. He said it was basically to cover up what he described as the Trump administration's disgusting racial politics.
Do you think that that's fair? The Civil Rights Division has been looking at this case, as well as many others, for — again, as I said, since at least , when I was the United States attorney, and it's been other administrations.
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