AFROAM 236 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Carpool, Montgomery Improvement Association, Emmett Till

• School: UMASS-Amherst
• Department: Afro-American Studies
• Course: AFROAM 236
• Professor: Traci Parker

Document Summary

1955 a moment of sentimentity: blacks more educated, have more cash, better jobs, able to buy better goods, they are spending in the millions and billions, this makes. August 1955 uncle of emmitt till came up to visit and emmitt went back down south to. Emmitt somehow flirted with the store owner"s wife. Two days later the husband kidnapped him and mutilated his body and shot and put him in the river. Jet magazine and (another magazine) published the image of dead body. Two men 1955 were put on trial and uncle took the stand. And the men were found not guilty in about an hour. A few months later one of the men admitted to committing the crime to a magazine. Some historians believe it is the emmitt till murder changed america. 1955 december 1st rosa parks takes her stand (emmitt till murder really got her thinking)