The Last Surviving Witness to Emmett Till’s Abduction Finally Tells His Story | Amanpour and Company
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- The lynching of Emmett Till was a case that helped spark the Civil Rights Movement. The Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr., the last surviving eyewitness to the tragedy, details his memories in a new book, "A Few Days Full of Trouble: Revelations on the Journey to Justice for My Cousin and Best Friend, Emmett Till." Now a pastor, district superintendent and public speaker, the Rev. Parker speaks with Michel Martin.
Originally aired on January 26, 2023
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Never stop telling his story! Every generation needs to know.
WE NEED TO STOP TALKING ABOUT THIS STUFF AND MOVE ON THAT'S WHAT THEY KEEP TELLING US AS BLACK PEOPLE LIKE WE GOT ⚖️ JUSTICE THIS NATION NEEDS TO BE ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES
Not in Florida, it might make a Klansman uncomfortable says Ron DeSatan.
@@realbeautyness25 What??
@@lisacateyes53Desantis is no difference a num nut “for a male that think He know what a woman body go through ,he think he has a right to decide what a women endure How would he feel if. He is told that his penis Néed to be remove? Not a man know what a woman go through . It is her body no man can tell a woman about her body. And personally Desantis is a idiot.
@@realbeautyness25Never stop talking about the atrocities that white men committed. Keeping it hidden only keeps this occurring. Shine a light on evil. Let the world see it. Chase it back to hell where it belongs.
This is a story of pure evil. As a child, I lived in the South, and was aware that lynchings were going on. The hatred was so intense and so deep, you had to live there and experience it to understand it. Emmet was just an innocent boy who was savagely tortured and murdered by a group of grown men. There are no words to express the horror of what was done to him.
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But it still goes on today by many blks towards whites and Asians nothing has changed just got worse with all the murders, shooting, slaughter, robings, lootings, blkgangs, blkkids, shooting teachers and other races, burning down stores and business everyday on the news this is all you see and hear all done by blks
TRUTH!!
So horrifying. I can't possibly grasp the stress living like that.😢💔
Emmett and his killer's are together with Jesus now 🙏
Thank you so much for having him tell his story. It's just heartbreaking on so many levels.
Thank you for watching.
Sadly, there were so many more Emmit Tills that didn’t make the news, because they knew the same would happen to them. Even the little girls they blew up at church, nothing was done about them. The “Soil of the South” has so many dead bodies that were buried at night, because they could accuse Blacks of any offense, and it resulted in a severe beating or death. Countless murders that nobody answered for, because Blacks knew to keep quiet!😢🙏🏽
I'll never get tired of hearing it and even I will continue to tell this story as well ‼️
I personally thought that Emmit Till coming to the south was not smart . That was the worst choice that anyone could really think that a Black child was not safe . The mother let her cousin talk her into letting Emmit to the south. Bad bad move just my opinion
@@audreymcdougle4193 I think hindsight is 20/20. There was a large enough family to watch Emmett and protect him. It wasn't Emmett's fault that he did something that is definitely prohibited in the South. We make errors with other people, but it's usually forgiven or was misunderstood. This was a different time and there is not an atom of me that will ever know the feelings of the families and Emmett. Our world today is very different. Horrifying racism and prejudice happens every day now. A lot of people were brainwashed to believe black people were less than, non-human, a disease to avoid, a disposable life. Safety concerns were active in the North as well as the South. Have you ever gone to a new, scary, or dangerous place, but had someone with you who was local and understood the surroundings. You'd feel much safer. His mom probably thought that he would safe in the arms of his extended family. That wasn't the problem. It was a simple cultural mistake. When we visit other places, foreign or domestic, we never really know the customs or repercussions of our actions. Emmett did something harmless, but in the wrong place at the wrong time. He never even knew. Carolyn's lies were not unusual of the times. It didn't make it right.
As a white father raising my boys in the South, thank you so much for conducting this interview!! I have just sat down with my boys to watch this interview and we had a very insightful discussion about Emmett Till and how our nation still has so much work to do to make life better and safer for all of our fellow human beings. Thank you!!
Thank you for sharing, Shawn!
The right thing to do, thank you.
Thank you for raising compassionate human beings. Please continue to remind your sons that all people deserve to be treated equally.
Thank you Mr. Simmons! We all need each other and we have to love each other.
Man poor kids having a cuckhold for a dad so sad
Did you show them what Blacks do to white in America? Show them Cannon Higgins
Since the first time I learned of this horrific and sickening act I have been horrified that anyone could justify such treatment of a human being let alone a young child. It still brings tears to my eyes. Such inhumanity exists to this day in all parts of the world and in the USA.
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@spider man Correct, no one is born racist! But to allow yourself to BECOME a racist and to live a life of hatred is a sin and a waste!!
God will have to bring his judgment on them
@spider man You are making excuses for something that can't be excused! We do NOT have to become a product of our society, that's a real copout! People rise above their circumstances all of the time!! What about the kid who grew up in a household where both parents abused drugs? He decides that he doesn't want to be like them, so he stays away from drugs, works hard in school and goes on to become a Harvard graduate!! His "society" was drug abuse, but he didn't make the excuse, my parents do drugs so I will too! He rose above that!! So I say for the LAST TIME, racism is a CHOICE!
@spider man 👞
Grown men tortured and killed a child...let that sink in.
over a lie😭
Rasheem Carter... decapitated in Mississippi last November. 3 trucks all W men chasing him. He called his mom before he came up missing and said" if anything happens to me the owner of the company did it."Rip all the Emmitts in the world.
That is what they do socalled white men they gang up on black people because they are cowards that's what cowards do, real men fight face to face
Yes I heard about this. So sad😢
He had a red shirt on, it was off while in the woods
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I remember this case too! I believe his family went down there and the locals were disrespectful and talking shit. I think this is the one I saw. I'm going to look it up.
I feel blessed that my high school history teacher had us learn about this in depth. Incredibly, the exact narrative as Rev.s was taught to me back in 2014. Emmets story should be part of every US history curriculum.
I definitely said this is something I should’ve learned in school. But okay so what im not understanding is even if it was after trial that the accused confessed to their crimes .. why wasn’t anything done atp? Like why is it still excuses as to why justice can’t be served
I agree, I asked my sons if they knew of Emmitt Till and was surprised they had not. 😢 The movie "Till" really captures what happened and I had my 12 year old watch it with me.
When you are a child and you find yourself in a frightening situation, your only hope is for an adult... mother, father, uncle, to come rescue you. And when he said he (Emmett) couldn't call out to his grandfather for help bc he (the grandfather) was IN TROUBLE TOO I felt that & immediately burst into tears.🤧 That was the level of HELPLESSNESS in that house that night. Lord!!😭😭
sorry for my ignorance, but why was Emmetts grandfather in trouble.
@@pinkiesue849wtf you think ?
@@pinkiesue849 research it.
Research Jim Crow laws and Black Codes
@@pinkiesue849 because as a Black man he had no rights, he was helpless. What could his grandfather do?
Wheeler and Simeon told this story Soooo many times. He tells the story the same way everytime. R.I.P Simeon and Emmett. Wheeler is the man.
Yes
What are you taking about black men do value black women .You must be white.
@@johndoe9362 ?
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I believe the story. It is heart-rending that adults would treat a young person so vulnerable that way, then lie to justify their actions. I can't wrap my head around the cruelty and hate. It is the same hate that is active today in politics and that divides our country. I am ashamed, we should have learned by now.
AGREE...
When you dehumanise people, you are justice and incentivise to do all the evil things to them without remorse.
Fox News is creating the same atmosphere at the moment.
Haven’t learned and are going backwards.
@@shallupe5317 I tried the Republican Party for almost 10 years, but the racism in that party is NEVER challenged; therefore, I couldn’t remain there. There’re some things I disagree with in the Democratic Party, such as discounting biological science disputing real women, but I vehemently hate racism, because I grew up in it. And I’m very uncomfortable rubbing shoulders with racist folks, because you have to endure it, but I couldn’t! 🙏🏽
@spider man yes they are. This is the stupidest comment I think I've ever seen. It's like you are making an excuse for you neanderthals
Emmett was just being a child. And Emmett was being a free human . And those evil people had no right to murder that child, the way they did. But I promise you this ,they are going to have to stand before Jesus every last one of them will pay 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾.
Amen
Amen❤
Amen
Who the hell do white people think they are
Has she ❓
Thank you Rev. Wheeler Parker, Jr. for your account of the lynching. I met Emmett when I was nine, two weeks before he was heading to spend the summer down south. He was 14, with the most beautiful eyes, I was smitten! This burden I've also carried, so happy to know, finally Emmett's story is known!!!!
Oh wow!! Where did you meet Emmett??
That silent prayer in the dead of night was REAL! "Lord, I'm going to die!" That struck me really deep💔
They pulled himout of his Uncles house. His Uncle never got over it, because he had promised his family that Emmet would be just fine.
The word EVIL doesn't come close to describe what happen to this beautiful young man. Its so disheartening to know that racism really hasn't changed enough in this world. People are still having to deal with injustice, what is it going to take to remind our world that we are all cut from the same cloth? ( Human) We need to make sure to educate ourselves as well as our children that this is unacceptable. The energy that it takes to HATE seems so exhausting, all that energy is so much more rewarding to smile or hold a door open for someone. Take a good look in the mirror and ask yourself What can I benefit from hate? What can I do to be that change?
You are right about racism. Now it’s black people hating white people. Why can’t we just love each other for who we are
I absolutely believe every word this sweet man said about Emmett, what happened at the store, and all that transpired after. The folks responsible for Emmett's death, including the woman at the store, should have all died the same way poor Emmett did. What they did to him was unconscionable.
The woman, Carolyn Bryant, is still alive. A few years ago she admitted that she lied about Emmet being aggressive towards her inside of the store. As this man is saying, he whistled. In the meantime, the two men who took him were originally only planning to "rough him up" not kill him because they knew he was a northern boy and they respected his grandfather. However, when they got him to the scene, they noticed that the boy was "arrogant", wouldn't back down, didn't act what they referred to as "n*gger scared" (i.e. crying , begging, pleading, etc...)" and he wouldn't admit to doing anything wrong. He also wouldn't say "yes sir" to them and when they asked him if he thought he was equal to white folks, he said "yes". They tried to beat and torture that out of him and still he kept saying "yes" to the question. It infuriated them. Eventually, they put a gun to his head and he still wouldn't comply. They shot him in the back of the head and then had the three Black men who witnessed the entire ordeal discard the body. Carolyn Bryant was originally in the truck when they picked Emmett up. She verified his identity and the rest is history. She had no compassion for the child nor for his mother. Vile.
And what was even worse, as mr. parker recounts here, is that when they were able to profit from their crime, they confessed but still continued to lie about Emmett's character. I can't imagine how it must have hurt the family to hear the way he was so falsely and wrongly portrayed in order to justify what they did. I'm sure there are people who still believe that Emmett was cocky about all the white women he'd had. This is blaming the victim ("it's your fault that I beat you") of the worst kind and a gaslighting that persists to this day.
I was born in 77’ 22 years after it happen my parents told me the story and I knew it very well, my 17yr old daughter knows the story and her children will know this story! #WeWillNeverForget
Ameen🙌🏾
Pure evil what they did to that young man who had his whole life taken away, yet she got to live her life.
This is why the day of their extrujudgement comes upon mankind.Whereas tm weak, desolate and down trodden can,t recieve justice, the almighty God or Allah will be the judge, jury and exicutioner on those who deprived the whole of humanity from their true liberty and human rights. It is said that during God,s judgement, mankind will not be able to deny what he did during their time of existence. For all the things he committed will be revealed to him or her,(good or bad). And they will not be able to deny their pass , for what will be revealed will be the unadulterated truth concerning their life and time on the planet earth.
I asked my grandmother what made her fall in love with her 1st husband. She claims she didn’t love him (after having 6 boys together 🙄), but she NEEDED to get out of Mississippi and he had just joined the army. My great aunt said grandma stopped smiling, when she was younger and still living in Mississippi. I always wondered about that….
My grandmother was a very pretty light skinned woman and we were always told that we had native ancestry. However, when my mom did a DNA test, it said she is 24% white… I don’t even know what that would mean for my grandmother. But my mom is kinda of light, and she did not get that from her father. Who was much darker. I want to know. And do not all at the same time. But later I found out, that everyone knows what the unspoken rules are in the south…
My family has had land stolen, we have been rapped, tortured, maimed and killed. We are all so very very tired of this shit. I wish I was given the $5 million offer, that they had in California. I would take that money and get the fuck out of this shit-hole country, so goddamn fast!
You would see dust, like roadrunner.🏃🏾♀️💨
Blacks in California got a $5M offer in reperations?
I'm so sorry for all of this for you and your family. It's horrendous
I’m lighter than both of my parents and I’m unmistakably, undoubtedly my father’s child. Genetics were taught to us in high school. People come out all kooky kinds of ways irregardless of their racial backgrounds.
What $5 million dollar offer are you referring to? My mom's side of the family is from the backwoods of Mississippi (in 2024 their hometown's town population is less than 400), and most of them moved to Los Angeles, CA. So, I'm curious about you mentioning a $5 million dollar offer. What offer are you referring to?
I instilled in my son, to leave white women alone. I ALWAYS brought up Emmitt Till.
And that’s why today bm want them they’re seen as a trophy 🏆.
@@Believerfearless seen by a trophy to a black man that doesn’t know his value
@@Vonvon_ 🎯🎯💯💯💯
@@Believerfearless There are. Get with a BW all you gonna end up with is Glorilla or Megan The stallion type with brazy & always dancing half naked
He didn't do anything to this lying woman. She just lied
We traveled to the south from NY. However, by that time my grandfather and great grandmother owned their own land so we didn't have to go to town. We had fruit trees, pecan trees, watermelon fields, and so on. Thank God
You should have NEVER been scared, or worried, about your own well being.
Not. Ever!
@@jessiefrye3045 we weren't there was a swamp off of my grandfather's land white hunter would have to drive by my grandparents home to get to it. When coming through they'd stop and speak to my grandparents they call them Mister and Miss. They never called him boy or the n-word in pur presence. My grandfather never jumped for them either. He went from sharecropping to ownership.
So many humanitarian, wise, compassionate, observations made in these comments. Along with acknowledging that and the strength of this good man coming forth with his story, I must compliment this interviewer. She asked alll the right questions with calm and sensitivity. Great job!
I have heard this story countless times, and each time, it breaks my heart. 💔😢
Yes; sadly there were many stories that never got told.
There is absolutely NO WAY I would have remained in the South after I became an adult or gone back 2 visit during those times especially in MS! They’re STILL this day a bunch of backwards, racists ppl in the country. My family would have had to come visit me where I was. Just the other day a story made national news where a young 23 yo melanated man went missing after reporting to the police he was being harassed by 3 white men in pickup trucks! His body was found decapitated in the woods! Mississippi will ALWAYS be burning 🔥 🤬
I am grateful that you decided to tell your story. Painful as it is to retell it so many times, it is a necessity that the whole truth be known. DeSantis and others can never erase truth. You have been kept for such a time as this. God Bless you.
This bloodline of nephillim is still here on this earth.Demonic race of people
As a man of God as he claims to be I'm not sure why it took him so long to tell his story if he believed God had his back then why would he wait forever to tell his story.
My soul hurts for you Reverend Parker. I'm sure every time you tells this story, you relive it. The emotional PTSD from constantly reliving that terror, from that level of evil, at such a young age must be draining.
This rabid reaction from the same amerikkklan kkkracker kkkaren and kkken Nazis who wrap themselves in the flag and call themselves patriots is disgusting. This kkkountry has many racist hate crimes to atone for.
Thank you Sir for keeping the reality of Emmitt Till's life and malicious murder on our minds. 🚫⚖️🚫☮️
Annette: please share with me what does DeSantis have to do with this. He is in Florida & not born until 1978 or so.
Exactly 🤔
What an absolute tragedy this story is.
Black males WORLD-WIDE practice INTRA-racism and colorism against their own race of black women.
Is that an absolute tragedy?
Another White person trying to analyze black people I think you need to analyze your own people.
What a tragic story that happen in taylorville, mississippi where rasheem carter, was killed and his bones was delivery to his mom in a shoe box...
Thank you for sharing. I know it had to be difficult to share, but the injustices of the world will not improve without truth. So, thank you.
That women who caused this poor child's brutal murder is alive still living in hiding never showed any remorse for what she caused this family his mother pure evil people say she got off she hasn't gotten away with anything we all pay for our crimes one way or the other she will pay in the afterlife just heartbreaking I can't stand to listen or hear about this case makes me so angry and sad😢😢😢
It's disgusting
Hell is waiting for her,
Trust me God is at work. He's keeping her alive for a reason. Only he knows. He's a Just God. We don't see what she is dealing with. He's dealing with her and so many more. 🙏🙏🙏🙏
They recently found her
CAROLYN BRYANT! HER NAME IS CAROLYN BRYANT.
There is absolutely no justification for what happened to this young boy vengeance is the Lord's 😢💔🙏🏿
Thank you for bringing this to us. A powerful message and truth
Yesssssssssssssssss
"I want the world to see what they did to my boy."
When choosing an open casket option,his mother said this. It was later on the cover of JET back then 😢
We saw, Mrs Till. We can't allow people to forget
God bless Rev Parker this man has lived this evil nightmare of a story since he was a kid God has kept this man here to remind us to never forget what happened to Emmitt Till let us not forget 😢
Ameen what's done in the dark has come to visit light truth be told
Agree. thank you Pastor Parker. I cannot believe evil, grown men could even think of doing this to a 14 year old.
@@pinkiesue849Believe it...
It's 2023 and we still have alot of Carolyn Bryant's walking around til this day. We call them "KAREN'S"
Thank you for telling your story.
My heart is literally racing while Rev. Parker recounts this story.
I plan to buy your book as soon as my check comes in, in a few days. Sad and tragic 😢. I’m 63 years old, a white woman, and I never even knew about Emmett till until 2020 after George Floyd’s murder.! How damn sad is THAT!
That's unbelievable. It shows that many of us are living in two different realities.
Wow, I thought everyone was aware of Till's story. If you have had a chance to read the book, do you mind sharing what you thought?
😢 if they have their way no one. It is the killing that sparked the civil rights movement of its time like George Floyd sparked BLM. This is always hard for me to hear. I brought the book. I have to wait pause prepare to listen to his eye witness account. Its gonna be hard. 😭
Also learn about the Tulsa massacre. Not for you to feel guilty but because what was shapes what is. All people should know about this history then mabe this won't happen again.
@@jlilly7913 well she is trying to learn. Its okay. She is learning now. Not everyone knows everything. Give her some grace.
This man is not that old. To think that this is what life was like IN HIS LIFETIME. And not even in his early childhood, he was 16. Nearly a man. This was relatively recent. It’s crazy to think about.
Exactly!
He was 12
@@Tatyana342 I think Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. was 16, Emmett was 14, and cousin/uncle Simeon was 12.
Wheeler should have had Emmett back. I don't feel like jw and Roy were the only ones jealous even hateful of Emmett. Imjs. Two Chicago kids but only one in trouble?? Wheeler should have told his grandfather to get Emmett outta there!
I first learned the case of Emmett Till when watching the PBS series Eyes on the Prize. It was jolting to my senses then and has been equally jolting each time I've listened to it or read about it all during the ensuing decades. I am a 78 year old white man - the state of Mississippi will always remain anathema to me.
I became obsessed with this story and begin doing research in 1990. I spoke by phone with one of the Black citizens in Greenville familiar with the story. He was more than accommodating and urged me to "come down" there. It became obvious I might meet some resistance from the mother as she had seemingly shut out most inquiries. I began to realize this was not going to be a cakewalk, aside from having no experience writing such script along with possible monetary considerations I'd have to bear. It seems it took Whoopi Goldberg 15 years to produce the film ans with that in mind, I serious doubt I would have been able to find funding. But then, one never knows. I decided against proceeding, but the story remined with me. Emmett was 6 years older than me and unlike him, I was born and raised in the south. Sadly, that could have happened to any young black kid., even if his actions were misunderstood by the whites. My parents died in the south in 2005 and were buried in a segregated cemetery.
This is so sad and yet they don't know there is a God that they will face , from the beginning of it all and for every person that was done this way #Godhavemercy
Why would they want to be buried with the people's that oppressed and tortured them all their lives.
The white lady that lied on him needs to be arrested!
She recently died...may she roast in h*ll!
@@Chele_B_Review Good Riddence to Bad Rubbish.
My Father would take us to Alabama from Chicago to see family every year until I was 7yrs old, when my parents divorced. I remember being taught we could go anywhere but never walk on or cross these train tracks. The White people lived there, and we would be harmed. This was in the late 60’s early 70’s.
I couldn't even fathom growing up with that fear. I seriously will NEVER understand the hatred.
There isn’t a justification in this world to justify what these evil men did to Emmitt Till, as a race we should be ashamed that these men lived out their lives free from conviction, But, I trust in the Lord Jesus & his just Justification.
We failed this young boy & his family.
🙏🏿 🙏🏿 🙏🏿
What a precious dialogue for mankind. Many thanks.
I am terribly sorry you had to endure this sir, but thank you for sharing. As a black man who grew up in the south and as a child, saw Emmett's image in Jet, i could hardly sleep or eat for a day or so
Thank you Sir for your story and I’m so sorry what happened to Emmitt. Plz see the movie Till ….
Yall hear that people? When it was cotton pickin time, you had to puck cotton, and if you weren't in the fields pucking cotton you wound up in jail. In the 1940's in Mississippi. Thats my Grandparents youth. Two generations from me. And my Grandparents said they used to pick cotton but never did they go into detail, they said it was hard, but they never went into detail because they didn't want us to have anger in our hearts towards certain people. But as granny always said, the truth comes out in the wash. That was institutionalized slavery. This is crazy!
Emmet's family were sharecroppers. Life for a sharecropper was only a step above slavery! My family is from Clarksdale, Mississippi, about a 30-40 minute drive from where Emmett was kidnapped and murdered. My family farmed cotton, but my grandfather owned his 60 acres of land. My mom and aunts and uncles picked cotton, but not like slaves on a plantation like sharecroppers. Owning your own land made a big difference if you were black in Mississippi.
Emmet's uncle was more submissive because he was a sharecropper and didn't have much to say. Bryant and Milam would have gotten some rounds pumped in their asses if they had come up on my grandfather's property!! Even back then, a black man had a leg up if he had his own land!!
@@rucianapollard7098 this is true!
Blessings & Respect to a gentleman Giant, for your Sabra ( patience and perserverence).
Heartbreaking, truly a tragedy. Change is coming way too slowly and people like DeSantis fighting it every step of the way. 🕊
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The Bible says you reap what you sow! What was first will be last, and what was last will be first!!! Praise God!!!
Exactly. God sees everything & is just 🙏🏾
@@lt3074 The Most High...the Elohim of our nation, Israel, has a name, Yahuah
Thank you for sharing your story. Knowing our history is important. Knowing the truth is important. Yes, the Southern USA still has so much work to do. Not only white and black people ...but whites and everyone else.
Incredible story and phenomenal interview ! Thanks Rev. Wheeler for sharing with us an important chapter in your life .
So sad and tragic! Such a wonderful interview.
I hate his life was spent recounting a tragedy that happened in his childhood. This man could have been known for many great things, but this has to be his legacy …
😔
I am just glad that Almighty God took charge of this man's life. Unfortunately, this sort of evil is prevalent throughout the world.
The woman who lied, those men who murdered him and the all white jury will NEVER escape God's judgment.
"For we must all stand before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive his due for the things done in the body whether good or bad."
2 Corinthians 5:10.
Some black men from mississippi, were also involved in Emmett"s death!
You have to tell your cousin story because it important. You are his words and pain. This was a terrible tragedy lynching and total abuse. Gbless him and his parents.
Speechless with shame and horror.
This is heartbreaking.
Didn't they find a warrant for Ms Bryant's arrest years later,but chose not to pursue because she was too old? I saw a story about that on Roland Martin.
Not because of her age.
This case is a part of history now. All we can do is learn from it. Like slavery we leave it to the dark past. We still hurt from it though. The surprising truth is that this is viewed as a story for Black people! It’s not viewed as historical; it’s like a touch tone. As most Whites in North and South, USA;
they haven’t heard the story! Those of us who were alive during the Civil Rights Era; know the story well. It’s a story that we really hate to tell, hate to remember! After the death of the cousin; I think we won’t likely hear of it again! It stirs up emotions; and bring up the dark past that many want to forget!
Carolyn Bryant has been investigated 14 times from August 28, 1955 to August 10, 2022, by 2 county Sheriff's Department, grand juries, the state of Mississippi, the Justice Department, and the FBI. And the results were the same all 14 times:
Carolyn Bryant had nothing to do with the kidnapping or murder of Emmett Till.
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12 grown men kidnapped, mercilessly tortured, and murdered an innocent 14 year old Emmett Till
However, there is such a fetish to crucify Carolyn Bryant, folks have *forgiven and forgotten* the very men who had to wash the *real* innocent blood Emmett Till off their hands on the Lords day, August 28, 1955.
The arrest warrant was found in some old boxes in the basement of the courthouse it had been deep-sixed there. The law of that city did not want her to be arrested and she continues to live today.
The family members should have whooped their asses.And dealt with the outcome later.
Everyone will have to answer to The Almighty Creator. Such a sad story to have happened to a child.
This interview should be added to the Emmett Till section of the AA History Museum in DC
What a relief to finally hear from someone who was there when this tragedy took place! I am so sorry this gentleman and his loved ones had to endure this much pain !💔 My dear brother was a victim of a similar style of being murdered in 1995, and I feel the "pain" of it constantly! I was born in 1956, so I am grateful for your story being written because it's not a secret that we still see this today! I personally am hopeful that the children of today will make things better. They deserve to live in a world filled with "hope and ❤️ love!" Thank you so much to all involved in bringing us this historic lesson! This was much-needed for historical purposes. This book will be enjoyed by many, I am sure!
The helplessness is awful. Being a grandparent and being helplessness to help your grandson has to be torturous. At that time period, do you think they would have been found guilty if tried in Chicago? I was 3 at that time in Ohio. How horrible, my heart goes out to the family.
People who feel entitled and have power to fulfill their entitlement are dangerous.
Thank you for telling us
I think of the racists as the racists thought of Emmett Till.
@spider man This is true, but that doesn’t absolve someone of the responsibility to not be racist.
@spider man Either you are naive, simpleton or a troll or a combination of all three. But shit I might as well bite as I see that you are racist apologist. So I am responding to you for the benefit of others-not you-as you have illogically made you stance. Your argument is essentially that Roy was a product of his environment and therefore in that context he was not entirely responsible or culpable for his atrocity. Racism (not bigotry which I will explain the difference for feeble minds) is about power that is exercised through all avenues of life-economic, political, and financial, and social. All racist are bigots, but not all bigots are not racist. A person can be bigoted against someone but if they are not integrated into a system that codifies and inculcates that bigotry into universal system that then allows that sense of bigotry to negatively effects those of marginalized group, then they are not racist-just an asshole. In other words one can say something bigoted about your ethnicity or color of you skin which may be tasteless or hurtful but it’s just stops there then it’s just there and done, but if they can use that bigotry the fuel a system to adversely effect you that’s Racism. Roy was actually part of a system that allowed him to enact violence on Till based on race without repercussions. That again is racism. Racism is about power and the violence that comes from racism is about maintaining power. Roy may have not been born a racist but he ended up being ardent racist, whether he was born that way or was indoctrinated is irrelevant; it just like excusing a bank robber for robbing a bank because he wasn’t born that way. So please save your sophist arguments for people who are as simple as you. Secondly the violence that Roy perpetrated was by his own design an he had gotten his wife to lie on the stand to as per court transcripts and her admission so that he would not be accountable for his crimes which he admitted to after he was acquitted, knowing full well that the system of racism was so pervasive in the South would afford home the privilege of not being accountable. Thirdly Roy was a violent man. There are thousands of white men at the time who problem my had the same racist sentiments as Roy but would not have gone as low as to commit such a heinous act, to do something as hateful as that for a catcall show the absolute depravity of Roy’s soul. If there is a hell I may be going there as I am not a perfect man, but if I do go I am assured I will see Roy there.
@spider man and you are a fool. No one is born a murderer, a thief, or a criminal for that matter. It is never how we are born it is always about what we do with the life we are given. There are no circumstances in this world that warrants or justifies someone to visit cruelty on another unless their very life (not perceived way of life) is challenged.
@spider man No I trying to tell you that you are fool and a racist apologist because you never admitted that Roy was wrong. Yes racism was accepted during the time but murdered was patently wrong then as it is now.
@spider man I assure you sir my IQ outmatches you in every way. You and you faux since of understanding. IT DOES NOT MATTER HOW WE ARE BORN. We are as Jean Jacque Rousseau said “Tabla Rosa,” blank slate. I get you. What I am telling you that only matters in the philosophical ether. What we do in life is what matters as does the choices we make. Whether we or not we warped into abominations or honed into meaningful human beings depends on the decisions we make. And for the record spider man, 4% of the human population are sociopaths which can be confirmed by SPECT brain imaging, look it up. Which means 4% of the populous is prone to and able to commit acts of violence without remorse. I submitted that some of the most ardent racist whether they be KKK, Nazis, Islamic extremist, Warlords, or Mafia Bosses are not only molded by their circumstances or environment, but also it their perverse innate sociopathy that pushes to extremis. Please read some on developmental psychology before you mention low IQ and that Pollyanna rosy glass malarkey. BTW you are not as intelligent as you think.
Why isn't this woman who lied not In jail or dead .
She said emmit came in the shop however he didn't.
Why was there no witness all those people standing around .
Also there was black men involved in his kidnapping that night.
Still no justice.
I was wondering if this comment was going to come up. If it wasn't going to come up, I might have made it but you did. I read that book that came out a couple of years ago that it wasn't just those white men who came and got him. There are also some black people that were with them who assisted in the whole event. I wonder what happened to them. I don't know if his story that he was telling was mentioning them or maybe he doesn't say anything about it ever. I always wanted to know what happened to them.
@@wryckingbaul8612 he didn't mention they blackmen because he wasn't outside to see that there was black men there that night he can speak from a stand point of his inside encounter .
But I do know that there were more people at the shop that day when Emmett till wen there and never went in.
I also so know that the voice softer than the men was a woman and the charges could have been kidnapping. Also this case was and still is being handle wrong. These days if the law finds any I mean any evidence on the internet wherever they use it but there was evidence that she was to be arrested, there's evidence that they indeed kidnapped a child and there's evidence of force entry there's evidence that years later a confession was made by the killers them self as to exactly what they did to that child that night. So why have there been no peace give to this family.
I'm guessing its the same old dirty system over and over again .
Cold cases for white people don't ever get closed remember that.
I don't care how anyone feels about it. I'm BLACK AND I'M PROUD.
Why isn't she in jail? Because the system is still racist, still white supremacist. Because she still has "white woman privilege."
Carolyn Bryant was with the murderers the night they went to kidnap Emmett Till. She was waiting in the car and identified Till to them. A few years ago, (almost around the same time as her more recent admission during an interview that she had lied about Till's actions), documents were found in an old part of the sheriff's building that dated back to the time of the lynching and trial. They revealed that Bryant was never charged as an accomplice to Till's murder because the police were sensitive to and concerned about the fact she had young children to take care of and her husband was already charged.
When this information from the documents spilled out into the public sphere, justifiably angry folks gathered together and mounted protests outside the nursing home where Bryant then lived (she was later moved). The protestors were insisting that she now be charged as an accomplice and as a perjurer.
The same institutional police force that didn't do their/its job honourably back-in-the-day and charge her as an accomplice, due to their sympathy for her as a young mother, now refuses to charge her with perjury because, according to the police, she is elderly and it wouldn't be fair to deal with such things in her final years. The prosecutor and other judicial and political officials obviously agree.
The second part of that question was "why isn't she dead?" Because too often the good die young; and because not enough of us organize, rise up, fight for rightness, and keep fighting to maintain it, evil expands and tends to last long into old age, comfortable in a world with lots of its friendly systems.
@@xinavaneify I can't even argue with this . But what I do know is that she needs to go to jail or at least be charged for what she did.
But if you look at it really she's paying for what she did because she can't stay in public eye view. Her life is really not at Peace.
@@sharezwilliams4658 From my perspective, she hasn't and isn't paying for it. She's lived a comfortable life, a shero among many of the townsfolk; she got to watch her brats grow to middle age; her admirers and racist groups like the KKK make sure she's in a nice home, has good food, folks to care for her, etc.
Her lies deprived Emmett of what her children got to do and Ancestor Mamie Till to witness her son grow to manhood. There were Black people who had to leave town; others threatened year after decade. She denied them comfort and peace . Her lies impacted the nation. In fact, among the Black communities in Canada where I live, they impacted us!
Your first paragraph was right. She should be charged, and if there is justice, she should end up in jail regardless of her age.
The countless numbers of jailed Black men, (and quiet as it's kept Black women), many completely innocent and now elderly, are not considered too old for incarceration and they are not being released. If they are not too old for punishment-- many of them not deserving of any--Bryant isn't too old to begin paying what's due. IMHO .
I appreciate you for still fighting for the justice of your cousin/ family member as you should .What doesn't make sense is why this white woman hasn't been locked up to date . The reasoning why is crazy because black people has and had been locked up years later of old crimes so why not her .She lied on this child and caused him his life ‼️
Imagine the fear instilled in poor Emmett that day, but even worse, the fear in him on the day of his death at the hands of those thugs. They never saw Emmett as the innocent child that he was. In fact, they did not even see him as a human. His corpse was full evidence of that. I thank God that Mamie Till had the courage to show the world the evidence of this horrific event. Neither her nor Emmett ever got justice in their lifetimes, but I pray that his suffering was not in vain and that it has prevented even one death since. Nothing much has changed, but we continue to trust in God and to him be the glory. Thank you, Reverend Wheeler, for giving us a true recollection of the story. Mamie and Emmett continue to sleep peacefully 💔
I believe with all my heart too! The evil runs from the truth but can’t hide. My heart hurts for Emmett Till. Much love and peace to him. ❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏🏻🕊️👑
Karma follows us like a shadow
Wait, what? What do you mean "karma follows us like a shadow?" Who is getting karma in the situation? You need to clarify your comment and state who is getting all this karma and why.
And never forgets your name!
Look at the age of this man. This wasn’t that long ago.
My mom was 5 when this happened and she lived in Clarksdale, Mississippi about a 35-40 minute drive from where Emmett was kidnapped and murdered.
1955
IMAGINE AS A MAN OTHER MEN COMING INTO UR HOUSE AND TAKING UR GRANDCHILD AND ITS NOTHING U CAN DO AND THEY TAKE HIM AND TORTURE AND KILL HIM , NOTHING IS LOWER THEN THIS !!! THIS MAKE U SO ANGRY AND EVEN THOUGH ITS SO LONG AGO IT MAKES U WANNA GO OUT RIGHT NOW AND GET REVENGE FOR EMMETT , WHEN U HEAR HIS STORY ITS LIKE HOW CAN U NOT WANT REVENGE , AND THEN WHEN U THINK ABOUT PRAYING U SAY TO UR SELF THTS WHAT THEY DID THEY DID NOTHING BUT PRAY SO U DNT EVEN WANT TO DO THAT , BUT WE HAVE TO JUST PRAY ABOUT IT !!!
Devils on earth. That was horrible to do to a child. 🙏🏽
They were Democrats. Democrats founded the KKK.
Wish the boys had told the grandfather sooner , they would have sent the boys away...now they probably would have killed the grandfather for payment..prayers to that family🙏🙏🙏 and the family's that this has happened too.
Emmett was the sacrificial lamb....his death jump started the civil rights movement..
Blessed Soul 🙏💕
My ex boyfriend's stepfather knew far too much about Emmett Till and what happened.
When he told me, things not known or made public about the case, I got physically ill. I ran out of their garage and got sick. I was shaking and started crying and couldn't stop.
There is far more , things no one would want to know, or hear, about this case.
@jessiefrye3025 what else do we not know about this tragedy. We are in a constant war aganist these soulless people with the calcified pineal gland causes them as a people to not have a conscious no moral compass. LOOK IT UP THAT PART OF THE BRAIN which ALLOWS US TO FEEL EMPATHY EMOTIONS & FEELINGS ETC ETC
Like what?! Explain 🙄
@@TAY-ui2no Nothing. This story has been told and written about for years. Nothing new. It has all been revealed.
@TAY Maybe the stepfather was there! To me a person is seeking attention when making a statement but doesn't elaborate on it. Either way this story will NEVER be forgotten.
Like they broke every bone in his body, cut his ear off, gouged his eyes out, shot a hole through his head, I saw his mom do an interview for PBS, so what is it that we don't know?
Carolyn Bryant was rumored to be in the car that night and confirmed to her husband that Emmett was the boy. So, he is not the last living witness to the abduction.
there were also rumoured to be two black men in the car, most likely employees of Bryant's brother-in-law who were sent out of state and told to keep quiet.
@@GlasPthalocyanine I heard that as well, if that's true, that makes it even worse 😢
@@shayg9126 I'm not saying that the right people weren't in court, btw. The whole case has been forced into a certain narrative over many decades, and some unpleasant truths won't make it into the film script. It just amazes me that anyone believes that we're having a retrial of the original case, in the RUclips comments section.
excellent as usual
Vengeance is mine saith the Lord. I will repay
Yes indeed!!
Smh 🤦🏿♂️.
I was raised in Mississippi in the late 60's. My Cousin From Chicago was visiting for the summer. We were at this country store and the white owner called her N___a when she picked up some candy to buy. She jumped on him scratched him up and I pulled her off him . We ran out the store as he was going to get his gun. Told my dad to which he helped diffuse the situation. But we had to put her on the train back to Chicago that night! She was was 13 I was 11. She has passed on now but she was not buying it. It could have been a really bad situation if we had not got her out of Mississippi. She was my hero.
I was born in the south we didn't go anywhere without our parents till we could shoot I was 6yrs old we were on our way to big mama house gpa was driving all of a sudden he stopped pulled behind a building made us get on the floor covered us with blankets we always carried he said don't get up well I'm nosey as we were going by I peeked out all I see is a sea of white with 2 eye holes a truck with a cross burning on it someone in red I never asked gpa about it he would have beat me good you dont disobey when I got older I learned we could've been killed right there and nothing done we avoided sundown towns that still exist
Carolyn Bryant is dead. She died in April, 2023
I'm a 73 yr old white woman born in Chicago. When I was 22, I stayed in the Quarter in New Orleans for a while & then my black boyfriend (born there) came down. When he first got to my apt, I suggested we go for a walk. HIS HANDS WERE SHAKING before we went. White folks may be in denial, but when you witness that kind of reaction, there is NO doubt. (BTW, Another friend of mine had faded tattoo numbers on his left forearm. Yes, the Haulocost happened too.)
I hear ya! I know a few blk and Hispanic people with #’s on their arm! I def. Hear ya… it’s crazy right?! This world. Their numbers are def. a harsh reminder. Those blk and Hispanic people who have those numbers are so traumatized, you can still see
The effects on today. Peace be with us all.
@Tina W The guy with the tattooed number was a German Jew.
Carolyn Bryant is still alive! Lock her up
Not anymore
No human being that has lived, who is now living or who will live in the future is getting away with anything.
Thank you for sharing your story Rev Parker. Rest in peace Emmett Till .❤😢
Hell will be full of these evil folks. Where the US Justice Dept failed, God will get his revenge in hell. That's a promise!!!
I think if Emmett went back home after the incident, those evil men would have killed one of his relatives. Who knows. It’s heartbreaking. Justice was never served.
Thank you sir for telling your story. You were there so we needed to hear it from your perspective. Thank you for sharing the truth the real truth ❤
I’m 57. In the summers we would go to the south for vacation. If I had known this story I would have begged not to go. We stayed in Black areas and would go days without seeing anyone white. This story always makes me so sad.
That's how it was for most black kids in the south during 50s and 60s. You didn't see white people unless it was absolutely necessary. I believe they tried to protect us from the evils of racism and feeling like 2nd class citizens.
Its important to remember, but its also important to one day get over it so that this ugly past dont hinder a future where we one day can stay and work shoulder by shoulder for a brighter future and oportunitys for our Children and our Country. There will always be bad and hateful People who are full of fear and have a weak Character but there are also good People even at the Time of the Civil Rights Movement White Black and Asian People where standing together instead of divided and demanded equal rights. So what im trying to say is choose rightchousness and Love instead of hate and fear.
It’s more than just a story about injustice. This is the touch tone of the status quo of the South, that now purrs rather than roar. If this type of behavior wasn’t suppressed today , we would have many lynchings. Sadly we still have reprisals from time to time. Black people knew how the South was. People had to learn conformity to come down South. Emmett contributed to what happened to him , by doing the unthinkable at the time. He put himself in harm’s way. Yet his actions certainly did not dictate this type of behavior. I wonder why the government never delivered justice.; or is this a life lesson of crossing the line that they want us to always remember.
I found out last year that my grandmother baby sat Emmett Till🙏🏽
I knew Rev. Wheeler has had to recount this incident so many times over the years.
Well today Carolyn died today 4/27/2023 so know she might be facing judgment or what happens next after we die.
The fact that his grandfather couldn't do anything about it is so unbelievably upsetting. It was literally just ok, fine and dandy, to walk into someone's home, armed, threatening a family and take their child and murder him. They couldn't do anything about it! They all would have ended up dead! This makes me so sick. I have nothing but pure hatred for the people involved in this.
People say things haven't changed. But a lynch mob would not pull into someone's driveway today in fear of meeting a hail of gunfire.
Blacks are legally buying guns and getting their concealed weapons permit in order to protect their families. And they do.
Emmett wasn’t lynch he was tortured and shot and thrown in a river like a freaking animal I still can’t belive a young child had to experience such a painful death 💀 like that from some damn adults I just can’t even wrap my hands around it I mean I understand the south was very racist down there but beaten and tortured a child like they did is real evil 👿 Long Live Emmett can’t believe the momma had to experience such a tragic too her only child man
Good morning ty. You said; "he was tortured and shot and thrown in a river like a freaking animal"
Emmett Till's murder is a text-book example of a lynching. To take the law into your hands and murder someone based on political or racist motivations is the epitome of a lynching.
This absolutely breaks my heart. I didn't know until the special documentary. I was horrified and shocked that these people had gotten away with murder. Even more shocked that nothing was done to Carolyn Bryant despite the warrant that was "discovered".
The statue of limitations expired on the warrant. Sadly, she never paid for her lie, and I honestly believe she didn't have any remorse!
This story of Emmet obviously did not stop there. And the southern location was *not* the only place of embedded racism. While l was stationed in Pocatello, ldaho back in 1993, l was the only active duty Black in that unit. I worked hard to improve the area l was appointed to as a medical petty officer 2nd class in the US Navy. But when l got into a minor public disagreement with the reserve commander (after asking him to do a favor for another reservist), who l helped get back in the Navy, l was publicly called before the entire unit by the head commander, who by the way, had dinner at my house. He said that he intended to punish me to the fullest extent of the law. People knew that l was treated unjustly. I tried to remonstrate, but to no avail. I was booted out of Uncle Sam's Navy. It's been 30 years last March since this tragedy in my life.