– John Lewis, the civil rights leader and congressman who died on July 17, wrote this essay shortly before his death.Ĭontinuing Pioneer’s ongoing series of blogs here, here, here, here, and here on curricular resources for parents, families, and teachers during COVID-19, this post focuses on the 65 th anniversary of the murder of Emmett Till, which is August 28, 2020. I will never ever forget the moment when it became so clear that he could easily have been me.” He was 14 when he was killed, and I was only 15 years old at the time. He was my Rayshard Brooks, Sandra Bland and Breonna Taylor.
Setting off a firestorm of revolt, this touchstone event helped spark the Civil Rights Movement that would grip the nation through the '60s and '70s.
Acquitted of the crime, these men would go free only to later admit their guilt to a national audience in Look Magazine. Following this, the woman's husband and a group of other men kidnapped and murdered Emmett. Emmett was a young boy from Chicago visiting his family in Mississippi when he allegedly made some "ugly remarks" to a white woman. Against this backdrop, the story of 14-year-old Emmett Till is set. Whites and blacks were separate, and in most cases, certainly not equal. Throughout the 1960s much of America-especially the South-conducted itself under the cloud of segregation enforced by "Jim Crow" laws.
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