Emmett Till & Jim Crow

The Liturgists Podcast

The Liturgists

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 13 February 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

In 1955, at only 14 years old, Emmett Till was abducted and lynched by two white men. Till was accused of offending Carolyn Bryant, a white woman, in her family's grocery store. Regardless, in September 1955 an all-white jury found the killers not guilty of Till's kidnapping and murder. A few months after the trial, the two killers spoke publicly with Look Magazine and admitted they had murdered Till. Later in 2008, Bryant admitted that she lied about important details of her testimony. Emmett Till's lynching was a catalyst for the civil rights movement and its impact reverberates forward to today. Let's talk about Emmett Till and Jim Crow. If you like this podcast, join The Liturgists to receive even more content like this and talk with other liturgists via our weekly video chat.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the liturgist podcast.
0:04.1	You are now listening to Black History is American History.
0:22.2	I'm William Matthews.
0:23.2	Hey, I'm propaganda.
0:24.2	I'm Nikki Black.
0:26.0	And I'm Andra Henry.
0:28.2	Today's moment in Black History, Emmett Till and Jim Crow.
0:33.3	Emmett Lewis Till was born July 25, 1941.
0:39.8	He was a 14 year old African American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after being
0:46.9	accused of offending a white woman in her family's grocery store.
0:51.7	The brutality of his murder and the fact that his killers were acquitted drew attention
0:56.9	to the long history of violent persecution of African Americans in the United States.
1:02.5	Till posthumously became an icon of the civil rights movement.
1:07.2	Till was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois.
1:10.5	During summer vacation in August 1955, he was visiting relatives near money in the Mississippi
1:16.8	Delta region.
1:18.6	He spoke to a 21 year old Carolyn Bryant, the white married proprietor of a small grocery
1:24.4	store there.
1:25.9	Although what happened at the store is a matter of dispute, Till was accused of flirting
1:31.5	with or whistling at Bryant.
1:34.8	In 1955, Bryant had testified that Till made physical and verbal advances.
1:41.2	The jury did not hear Bryant's testimony due to the judge ruling it inadmissible.
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