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Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,," I know the one thing that we did right \Nwas the day we started to fight. Keep
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"your eyes on the prize. Hold on. Hold on.\NKeep your eyes on the prize, hold on.."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- On August 21st, 1955 two teenagers from \NChicago boarded a train and traveled south
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to visit family in Mississippi.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- We was going down there to pick some \N(inaudible). I'd never picked any
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(inaudible) before and I was looking \Nto do that because I told my mother
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I could pick 200 pounds \Nand she told me I couldn't ,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you usually go down there \Nlooking for a good time, you know.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- For more than a year, racial tensions \Nin the South had been higher than
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,usual. Since the Supreme Court\Nruled in Brown Vs. Board of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Education, that segregated \Nschools were unconstitutional.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The decision touched a raw nerve \Nin the white South and many
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,organized to preserve white supremacy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For years groups like the Ku \NKlux Klan practiced terrorism.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Despite national black protests, \Npublic murders of blacks were
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,common and the (inaudible) who \Ncommitted them went unpunished.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the previous seventy years, there had \Nbeen more than five hundred documented
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lynchings in Mississippi alone.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Coming from Chicago, Curtis Jones \Nand his cousin Emmett Till had little
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sense of the world they were entering \Nwhen they arrived in Money, Mississippi.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Emmett Till at the time, he was fourteen \Nyears old, had just graduated out of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,grammar school.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He had some picture of white kids \Nthat he had graduate from.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was you know, female and male.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So he told the boys down there,\Nhey you know, (inaudible) the store.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it must have been around about\Nmaybe ten to twelve, you know
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,youngsters around there. That the \Ngirls was his girlfriend, you know.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So one of the local boys said\Nhey, there's a girl in that store
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said " I bet you won't go in \Nthere and talk to her." You know.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So he went in there \Nto get some candy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So when he was leaving out the store,\Nafter buying the candy, he told her
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Bye baby".
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the next thing I know, one of the\Nboys came up to me and say, "Say man,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"you got a crazy cousin. He just went in \Nthere and said bye to that white woman."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's when this man I was \Nplaying checkers with-this older
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,man- I guess he must have been around\Nabout sixty or seventy. He jumps straight
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,up and say "Boy, say y'all about to get \Nout of here, say that lady'll come out of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"that store and blow your brains off."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- This is Moses Wright. I am \Nthe uncle of Emmitt Lewis Till.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sunday morning, about two-thirty, \Nsomeone called at the door, and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said, "Who is it?' \NAnd he said "This
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"is Mr.Bryant. I want to \Ntalk with you and the boy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when I open this door,\Nthat was a man standing with
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pistol in one hand and a flashlight\Nin the other hand. And he asked me,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Did I have two boys, that \Nare from Chicago?"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I told him, I have.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he said "I want it, I want the \Nboy that done all that talk".
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then marched him to the car, \Nand they asked someone there
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Well this is the right boy?"\NAnd the answer was "Yeah."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they drove toward Money.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Four days later, Emmitt Till's body \Nwas found in the Tallahatchie River.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- His body was so badly damaged\Nthat we couldn't hardy just tell
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who he was. But he happened to \Nhave on a ring with his initial.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that set it up.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- The body was shipped home,\Nback north to Chicago, where
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mamie Till Bradley insisted \Non an open casket funeral.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"So all the world can see," she said.\N"What they did to my boy."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“♪ (upbeat music) ♪”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jet Magazine showed Till's \Ncorpse. Beaten, mutilated,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,shot through the head.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An entire generation of young,\Nblack people would remember
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the horror of that photo.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“♪ (somber music) ♪”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Roy Bryant, husband of the woman\Nin the store. And J.W, MIlam, her
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,brother in law, were arrested \Nfor the murder of Emmitt Till.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The trial was held in \Nnearby Sumner Mississippi.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Black organizations like the NAACP and \NThe Black Press worked especially hard.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To keep the case in the news, to make \Nan example of southern racism for
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the world.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I cover the courts in many \Nareas of this country, but
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Till case was unbelievable.\NI mean I just didn't get the sense
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of being a courtroom.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was, first place segregated.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Black Press sat at a bridge table\Nfar off from the court. And the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,boys mother came down. \NThey sat her there, at the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bridge table with us.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- What do you intend to do here today?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- To answer any questions that the \Nattorneys might ask me to answer.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- How do you think it's possible \Nto be of help to them?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I don't know. I mean just by answering \Nany questions that they ask me.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Do you have any evidence \Nbearing on this case.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I do know that this is my son.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- The defense argued that the body found\Ntied to the cotton gin fan in the river
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was so disfigured that it could\Nnot be identified as Emmett Till.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The trial took five long, hot days.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The prosecution star witness\Nwas Till's uncle, Moses Wright,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who testified despite \Nthreats to his life.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- He was called up on too.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Could he see anybody in the courtroom\Nidentified anybody in that courtroom
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that come to his house that night\Nand got the (inaudible) out.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He stood up and there was a\Ntension in the courtroom
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he says in his broken language,\N"Dar he."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Dar he. There he is.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I really didn't realize how brave\Nmy grandfather Moss Wright was,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know, but after I got older\NI realized that he was a brave man.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was a mighty brave man to\Ntravel back down there, you know,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,among all those hostile peoples\Nand testify, get up in court
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and point his finger at a white man \Nand accuse him of murder.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- As the trial ended, a defense lawyer\Ntold the jury he was quote,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Sure every last Anglo-Saxon one of you\Nhas the courage to free these men."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It took the jury an hour to \Nfind the man not guilty.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(clapping and cheering)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Months later, for a fee of $4,000,\NRoy Bryant and J. W. Milam
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,told their story to reporter \NWilliam Bradford Huie.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Milam was startled at the belligerent \Nattitude or the fact that young Till
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,didn't appear to be afraid of him.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He'd gone and gotten him out of bed\Nand had him in the back of the truck
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and young Till never realized \Nthe danger he was in.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm quite sure that he never thought\Nthese two men would kill him.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or maybe he just in such a strange \Nenvironment, he really just
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,doesn't know what he's up against.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it seems to the rational minded\Ntoday that it seems impossible
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they could have killed him.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But (inaudible) looked up at me \Nand said, "Well when he told me
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"about this white girl he had he says\Nmy friend this war's about done
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"In now, he says, that's what we\Nhave to fight to protect."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just looked at him and I said,\N"Boy you ain't going to ever see
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the sun come up again."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I believe that the whole \NUnited States is mourning with me.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if the death of my son could \Nmean something to the other
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unfortunate people all over the world\Nthen for him to have died a hero
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would mean more to me than\Nfor him to have just died.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- The fact that the Emmett Till \Nyoung Black man could be found
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,floating down the river in Mississippi\Nas indeed many had been done
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,over the years just set i concrete the\Ndetermination of people to move forward.