Founder of the EmmettTillLegacyFdn Legacy Foundation and Till’s cousin, Deborah Watts, spoke in Saint Paul during a #SayTheirNames march on July 30 alongside her daughter Teri Watts about their never-ending quest for justice and the new revelations they found. 🧵
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This summer the ETLF & Till family searched the basement of Mississippi’s Leflore County Courthouse where family ambassador Khali Rasheed found an unserved arrest warrant from Aug 29, 1955 seeking the arrest of Mrs. Roy Bryant (Carolyn Bryant Donham) the last living accomplice.🧵

Roy Bryant & JW Milam were charged with Till’s kidnapping & murder & acquitted by an all-white jury. None of those involved were convicted. Bryant & Milam told their story to Look Magazine just 4 months after the trial & were paid $4K to tell their story: issuu.com/deveryanderson…

Noted as a pivotal moment in history that pushed the civil rights movement forward, #EmmettTills ’s mother decided to open her son’s casket at the funeral, letting the world see Emmett’s horrifically distorted face. (image available in article at top of thread - content advisory)

Three days after #EmmettTill was lynched, his mangled body was found. Plantation owner & local sheriff H.C. Strider attempted to hide the torture and have Till’s body buried immediately but Emmett’s mother Mamie Till Mobley was able to have his body sent back to Chicago. ↕️

Emmett Till was brutally lynched by a mob led by Carolyn Bryant’s husband at the time Roy Bryant & his brother J.W. Milam. Till was beaten & dragged to the Tallahatchie River where he was shot in the head, tied with barbed wire to a cotton gin fan & dumped into the water. 🧵

From Chicago, Emmett Till was 14-years-old when he was kidnapped, tortured, and lynched in Mississippi while visiting family in 1955.

Till, who was African-American, was falsely accused by Carolyn Bryant Donham, a white woman, of making advances toward her.

Just days ago a 9-foot statue of #EmmettTill was unveiled in Greenwood, Mississippi and a major motion picture feature called TILL is released in theaters across the country tonight. ↕️

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In March, the US govt passed a federal hate crimes bill named the Emmett Till Antilynching Act of 2022 & investigating on their own, ETLF discovered an unserved warrant on the last living accomplice in the gruesome 1955 lynching of Emmett Till (more on that in the thread). ↕️

After 67 years, the family of Emmett Till have shown what it means to not give up fighting.

The year of 2022 has been a really important year for the family & the EmmettTillLegacyFdn Legacy Foundation (ETLF) with several critical happenings. 🧵

Alabama Prison Strike on Hold After 3 Weeks unicornriot.ninja/2022/alabama-p…

Revolution in Every Country Comic Series: Episode 2 – Sudan: Building Power from Below unicornriot.ninja/2022/revolutio…

Another Summer of Protests, Gathering and Healing for Impacted Families [Videos] unicornriot.ninja/2022/another-s…

Anti-Police Activists in Baltimore Protest New University Police Force [Video] unicornriot.ninja/2022/anti-poli…

As police killings continue to increase in numbers while decreasing in attention, impacted families in the Twin Cities held numerous events during the summer of 2022, keeping the movement alive against what many families call “police terror.” Full story: unicornriot.ninja/2022/another-s…

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