57: Back in Crime: Emmett Till

Corpus Delicti

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True Crime

4.5 • 608 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

This week we go Back in Crime and look at the devastating, yet influential story of a 14 year old boy named Emmett Till. While visiting his uncle in Mississippi, Emmett was brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman, but his death sent shock waves through the nation. Find out how Emmett's mother took an unconventional but highly effective stance at her son's funeral and changed the face of U.S. history in the process. Music by:Kai Engel"Daemones" Blooper music by:Art of Escapism"Coal Miners" This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA 94042, USA. Transition Music by:Nick ScarantinoScarytino.com
Sources:
https://www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture/2017/04/26/emmett-till-lynching-shook-conscience-world?gclid=Cj0KCQjw4s7qBRCzARIsAImcAxacOGAoyLv4qoj6lVuZCAIewUfCP4F98nFVfpia0yV-zXTDE37Wjc8aAvl7EALw_wcB
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/07/12/emmett-tills-mother-opened-his-casket-and-sparked-the-civil-rights-movement/?
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/01/how-author-timothy-tyson-found-the-woman-at-the-center-of-the-emmett-till-case
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/07/12/emmett-tills-case-has-been-reopened-his-brutal-death-in-1955-put-a-spotlight-on-racial-violence/

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, it's Jamie from the Murderish Podcast. And this is Lindsay.
0:38.4	And this is the Corpus Delicti podcast.
0:41.3	Welcome back.
0:42.4	Hope you guys enjoyed last week.
0:44.2	We are going to jump into another back-in-crime case this week.
0:48.8	We will start off by saying this episode is pretty heavy.
0:52.5	It includes some racism, hate crimes, some gruesome details.
0:57.1	So please beware. It's a very important story, but it is definitely a heavy story. So Lindsay and I did
1:05.9	talk about this one about how charged it is, but given what happened, there's not a way that we couldn't tell
1:13.3	this story. Yeah, it's very important. And we wanted to make sure that the story was told. It has
1:19.9	come back in the news recently, too. So we wanted to cover that aspect as well, because if you guys
1:26.2	follow the news or have been hearing things
1:28.7	about it, at least you'll have some backstory on it.
1:31.7	So with that said, we are going to tell the story of a boy named Emmett Till.
1:38.1	He lived in Mississippi in 1955.
1:42.0	Now, this is, we kind of covered it before when we talked about the 16th Street church
1:47.2	bombing, but during this time, there was a lot of segregation going on. There was a lot of racism.
1:53.6	It was running very rampant, but you got to place yourself back into a small southern city
2:00.4	during the time where this was probably a very
2:03.3	passionate conversation. Emmett Lewis Till was born on July 25th of 1941 in Chicago to his mother
2:12.9	Mamie Carthin and his father Louis Till. And Mamie was from the Delta and Mississippi, which is a
2:20.8	multi-county area of northwest Mississippi. And if you're not familiar, I'm from Mississippi,
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