1. What Happened to Emmett Till’s Killers
David Phillippe
Alex Frisina

2. Early Life Born July 25, 1941 in Chicago Born to Louis and Mamie Till
Louis died in WWII
Emmett “Bobo” Till
All-Black middle class neighborhood
All-Black Elementary School

3. Personality Infectious Personality Loved to tell jokes
Paid to hear jokes
Prankster
Loved to mess with people

4. Mississippi Trip August 1955
Emmett and cousin Wheeler Parker went to Money, Mississippi
Great Uncle Moses Wright
Sharecropper and Minister

5. Mississippi Trip Mother told him to “mind his manners”
She knew the race relations were different in south
Lynching in the South
Took the law in their own hands

6. The Event Aug 24, 1955 Candy and soda Bryant’s Grocery
Roy and Carolyn Bryant
Just some Bubble Gum
“Bye Baby”

7. The Murder Open Casket Aug 28 2:30am J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant
A Brutal Murder
Charges?
Aug 31
The Decomposed Body is found
Open Casket
Thousands wait to see

8. The Trial Sept. 23 Kidnapping and Murder Plea innocent Moses Wright
Accuses Milam and Bryant of kidnapping Emmett
Sept. 23
Acquitted on murder charges
67 minutes
Outraged U.S. and Europe

9. The Aftermath Offered money to tell the story Look Magazine
$4,000 each
Double Jeopardy
Had to make an example of him
Ostracized from white society and forced to move away
Milam died from cancer in 1980
Bryant died from cancer in 1994